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Airplanes - Engines - Aircraft Testing Field, Packard Motor Co., Detroit, Michigan. Testing shed

Marvine Colliery, Breaker No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, between East Parker Street & Route 380, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Women employees rushing for their coats in the women's locker room at 4 p.m. They hurry in order not to have to stand on the buses

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Women in industry. Tool production. Two to a machine, these young employees of a Midwest drill and tool company are operating cylindrical grinders. This work is delicate and difficult, for the drills must be tapered accurately to size. The drills will be used in manufacture of guns, ships, tanks and in all war production where metal must be worked. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Women at work for victory. These young employees of a Midwest drill and tool plant are operating cylindrical grinders which taper drills to specified size. Used in the manufacture of guns, ships, tanks and all war production where metal is used, these drills demand precise and accurate grinding. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Two to a machine, these young employees of a Midwest drill and tool company are operating cylindrical grinders. This work is delicate and difficult, for the drills must be tapered accurately to size. The drills will be used in manufacture of guns, ships, tanks and in all war production where metal must be worked. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Women in industry. Tool production. Women at work for victory. These young employees of a Midwest drill and tool plant are operating cylindrical grinders which taper drills to specified size. Used in the manufacture of guns, ships, tanks and all war production where metal is used, these drills demand precise and accurate grinding. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. A job which was formerly done by hand (and by men) is done in this large Midwest drill and tool plant by women at machines. These young workers are putting precision-ground points on drills which will be used in production of America's ships, tanks and guns. It takes at least four months to train these young women in the operation of these machines, but at the end of that period their work is speedy and efficient, and this company has found that both production and the quality of the drill points have improved. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. A job which was formerly done by hand (and by men) is done in this large Midwest drill and tool plant by women at machines. These young workers are putting precision-ground points on drills which will be used in production of America's ships, tanks and guns. It takes at least four months to train these young women in the operation of these machines, but at the end of that period their work is speedy and efficient, and this company has found that both production and the quality of the drill points have improved. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Women in industry. Tool production. Testing small diameter, high-speed twist drills, this young woman employed by a Midwest drill and tool company is one of America's women "behind the men behind the guns." Drills must be perfectly made so that the nation's war weapons can be built to accurate specifications. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Testing small diameter, high-speed twist drills, these women employed by a Midwest drill and tool company roll the drills down a slight incline to determine regularity of diameter. It's a job requiring patience and finger dexterity, and these young women possess those definite feminine propensities for just such work. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

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01/01/1942
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Rosener, Ann, photographer
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R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company, Front Office Block, 2980 Madison Road, Norwood, Hamilton County, OH

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Stocks of partially completed lengths of seamless copper tube in many sizes. These have still to go through several more draws through dies on drawbenches. Each draw reduces them in diameter and wall thickness, and lengthens them out. Then, before the tubes leaves the mill, the ends will be sawed off straight and clean. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Mrs. Knees at oven, baking bread to be sold at farmers' market. Du Bois, near Penfield, Pennsylvania

Rags. Collection and processing. A portion of the sorting room in a large Eastern rag processing plant. In this room new rag remnants, consisting chiefly of cuttings received from clothing factories, are sorted. The rags are classified and separated according to the type of cloth; colored rags are graded according to the ease with which they can be bleached. The baskets in back of the women are filled with rags that have been sorted and classified. The women work in teams of two; it takes a team about two hours to sort the rags in one full bale. In another part of the plant, a room of the same size and general appearance as this is used for sorting used rags. Shapiro Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which will eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Mexican woman building fire in battered steel drum in backyard of her house, San Antonio, Texas

A black and white photo of a woman working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

Frankish Finger Ring - Public domain museum image. A black and white photo of a ring

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Grizzly Giant, 33 ft diameter, looking up, Mariposa Grove, Mariposa County, Cal.

[Man using tool to strip logs, Central Asia?]

Airman 1st Class Lawrence Gress, an explosive ordinance

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illinois cook county chicago nitrate negatives women industry tool production tool production diameter twist drills twist drills midwest midwest drill company roll tool company roll incline regularity job patience finger dexterity finger dexterity propensities work republic tool company 1940 s women young woman farm security administration 1940 s united states history library of congress