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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Sixty-year-old George Lane, former house painter, is a valuable worker in the De Land, Florida pool. He served in the last war with the British Army from Vimy Ridge to the Occupation. Two of his sons are in the American Army, one with the Air Corps in Australia. His daughter volunteered for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corp. Seven of his nephews are in the British Army. Using his old skill with the brush, he is now painting De Land pool products

Oiling the combine. Walla Walla County, Washington

A black and white photo of a man shearing sheep, Shearing sheep. Rosebud County, Montana

A black and white photo of a man working on a pile of wood, Loading sugarcane, Louisiana

Deck boy at Norwegian merchant ship in convoy to Murmansk autumn 1943

Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Burring operation on an LT boat at the Marietta Manufacturing Company

Conversion. Auto body plant. Driving his little electric scooter, this worker inspects progress of conversion to airplane production in a large Midwest automobile body manufacturing plant. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan

Kern County, California. Mill of the Tungsten Chief Mine. Ball mills grind the tungsten ore to a fine consistency which is suitable for the tabling concentration

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Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Manufacture of semi-trailers for Defense transportation. These trailers are eqipped with a combination platform stake body and are intended for general use in Army camps and depots. They carry a payload of 7,000 pounds. This worker is attaching reflectors to the rear of the trailer frame

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Completed semi-trailer with combination platform stake bodies are loaded into freight cars for delivery to Army Quartermaster Depots. These trailers are intended for general utility use in Army camps and supply depots. They carry a 7,000 ton payload

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Completed semi-trailer with combination platform stake bodies are loaded into freight cars for delivery to Army Quartermaster Depots. These trailers are intended for general utility use in Army camps and supply depots. They carry a 7,000 ton payload

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Completed semi-trailer with combination platform stake bodies are loaded into freight cars for delivery to Army Quartermaster Depots. These trailers are intended for general utility use in Army camps and supply depots. They carry a 7,000 ton payload

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Completed semi-trailer with combination platform stake bodies are loaded into freight cars for delivery to Army Quartermaster Depots. These trailers are intended for general utility use in Army camps and supply depots. They carry a 7,000 ton payload

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Flooring being laid on semi-trailers for general utility used around Army camps and supply depots. These trailers carry a payload of 7,000 pounds on a combination platform stake body of hardwood

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Flooring being laid on semi-trailers for general utility used around Army camps and supply depots. These trailers carry a payload of 7,000 pounds on a combination platform stake body of hardwood

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Tiers (7.00 x 20) to equip semi-trailers of the combination platform stake type. These trailers are used for general trucking around Army Camps and depots

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Manufacture of semi-trailers for general utility use in Army camps. The trailers are equipped with combination platform and stake bodies. Trailer frames are here being electrically welded on high tensile steel jigs

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Manufacture of semi-trailers for Defense transportation. These trailers are eqipped with a combination platform stake body and are intended for general use in Army camps and depots. They carry a payload of 7,000 pounds. This worker is attaching reflectors to the rear of the trailer frame

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colorado denver county denver safety film negatives trailers defense transportation defense transportation winter weiss company winter weiss company manufacture semi trailers combination platform stake body combination platform stake body army camps army camps depots payload pounds worker reflectors frame 1940 s 40 s united states history workers library of congress
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01/01/1941
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Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war Production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Production. War housing trailers. Many time-saving methods are employed in the making of war housing trailers at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. A heavy-duty stapling machine, for example, makes fast work of fastening the waterproof finish sheeting in place. Later a decorative strip will cover the staple heads and the sheeting will be trimmed off flush with the lower edge of the stip

New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the new oversize bus trailer which holds 141 persons and may be the answer to the problem of transporting war workers to outlying defense plants. Designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies, the trailer rolls on eight standard truck size tires, with the usual six tires on the power unit. The truck trailer unit as a whole is fifty-five feet long

Farmers in warehouse during the auction sale. Two bookmen on each side of the row follow the auctioneer and buyers calculating the amount of the sale by multiplying the price times the number of pounds. Mebane, Orange County, North Carolina. See subregional notes (Odum) November 9, 1939

[Assignment: NOAA_2004_3137_43] National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA STAKE HOLDER FORUM [40_CFD_NOAA_2004_3137_43_PM_DSC_8234.JPG]

A Mine Clearing Line Charge, or MICLIC, is fired on a range during a training session. The MICLIC is a rocket propelled line charged capable of breaching obstacles, walls, or minefields. The MICLIC has a 350 foot line charge secured by a 205 foot arresting cable. The line charge contains 1840 pounds of C-4 explosives

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war production. He's welding cover flanges for steel transformer tanks. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

The cotton pickers on this farm were temporary neighbors to the owner. Four adults and seven children. The latter as follows: one six year old boy picks one hundred pounds a day. His father said "He picks one hundred pounds every day." Two children of seven pick one hundred and fifty pounds a day each. One of nine years picks about two hundred pounds. Several from ten to fifteen pick three to four hundred pounds. The whole group picks a bale a day. (1,600 to 1,800) pounds a day. Location: McKinney [vicinity], Texas.

[Terminal Building, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]

[Main Lobby of the Terminal Building, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]

[Broadside of Locomotive 611, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]

[Men on Loading Dock, Bales of Cotton, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]

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colorado denver county denver safety film negatives trailers defense transportation defense transportation winter weiss company winter weiss company manufacture semi trailers combination platform stake body combination platform stake body army camps army camps depots payload pounds worker reflectors frame 1940 s 40 s united states history workers library of congress