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An old newspaper advertises the navy's quilt. The stars and stripes extra newspaper nazis.

An old newspaper advertises the navy's quilt. The stars and stripes ex...

Visual patterns: A newspaper article with the headline nazis quit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! / A newspaper with the words nazi's quit! - public domain stock photo.

Press Release No. 159, "Library of Congress Announces the Opening of Two New Exhibitions Related to the War," Library of Congress, October 7, 1940

Press Release No. 159, "Library of Congress Announces the Opening of T...

In Press Release No. 159, the Library of Congress announces the opening to two new exhibits: "Women in the War" and "Military Colleges."

Training for war. This apprentice school lad will become a soldier of industry in our war preparation. Right now he's learning how to grind tools at an eastern armory

Training for war. This apprentice school lad will become a soldier of ...

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James G. Rolunson [or Robinson], Administrative Officer of War Production

James G. Rolunson [or Robinson], Administrative Officer of War Product...

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Donald M. Nelson, chairman, War Production Board (WPB)

Donald M. Nelson, chairman, War Production Board (WPB)

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Poet and historian turns to films. Carl Sandburg is shown here as he was writing the commentary for "Bomber," nation defense motion picture just completed by the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) film unit. Mr. Sandburg is famous as the Pulitizer prize winning author of "The War Years", monumental biography on Abraham Lincoln, and as the author of numerous poems and other works. Mr, Sandburg is also famous as a musician, newspaper columnist and authority on Americans. The commentary for "Bomber" was his first excursion into film making. He volunteered his services to the defense program and served without pay

Poet and historian turns to films. Carl Sandburg is shown here as he w...

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Make your scrap tires save lives. Life rafts like this, standard equipment on American war planes that fly over stretches of open water, have saved the lives of many air crews. Men have been rescued after floating in them for weeks. The ten pounds of rubber in one of these vitally important rafts is about the amount of rubber in a worn automobile tire ready for scrapping

Make your scrap tires save lives. Life rafts like this, standard equip...

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Keeping score in the war production drive. 2) Like to mop up on these babies? Well, that's the idea. Above is another suggested War Production Board (WPB) device to enable America's factory workers to know the score in their drive to erase these gentlemen. As plant production draws closer to its goal, Awful Adolf, Bungling Benito and Horrors Hirohito begin to disappear from the face of the blackboard as they will presently disappear from the face of the earth

Keeping score in the war production drive. 2) Like to mop up on these ...

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"Buy Coal Now" poster. As part of a national campaign urging consumers to buy coal now to help clear the way for heavy war shipments later, the above poster is being sent to railroads, wholesale and retail coal dealers, and various public and private agencies. The poster was prepared by the Consumer Division of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) and the U.S. Bituminous Coal Consumer's Council

"Buy Coal Now" poster. As part of a national campaign urging consumers...

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War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the War Production Board (WPB) to salvage committees in cities where tin salvage campaigns are conducted. The original is 20 inches by 28 1/2 inches and is printed in red, gray, and black on white. Copies may be obtained from Central Distribution Service, Office of Emergency Management (OEM), 1509 Fourteenth Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C.

War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the War Production ...

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J. R. Stuart, Head, Warehouse Section, Iron and Steel Branch, War Production Board

J. R. Stuart, Head, Warehouse Section, Iron and Steel Branch, War Prod...

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You can do your part by growing and storing your own food and raising a surplus to sell. Ask your farm and home supervisors how you can do the most--in your own home and on your own farm--to help win the war

You can do your part by growing and storing your own food and raising ...

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David J. Winton, Chief of the Pulp and Paper Branch, War Production Board (WPB)

David J. Winton, Chief of the Pulp and Paper Branch, War Production Bo...

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Nelson registers for draft. Donald Nelson, WPB (War Production Board) chief, registers under the Selective Service Act in the boardroom of the Social Security Building, April 27. Assisting him is James D. Hayes, chairman of local draft board No. 9, Washington, D.C.

Nelson registers for draft. Donald Nelson, WPB (War Production Board) ...

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Church and civil war memorial in the town square at Thompsonville, Connecticut

Church and civil war memorial in the town square at Thompsonville, Con...

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Civil war monument on village green. Woodstock, Vermont

Civil war monument on village green. Woodstock, Vermont

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Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board, studies the program by which America's farm women plan to help win the war. Graham Patterson, publisher of Farm journal and farmer's wife, national farm magazine, is seen here presenting the "War Platform" which twenty-eight leading farm women, speaking for the rural homemakers of America, drew up in a recent Chicago conference sponsored by this magazine. Several sections of the platform were addressed directly to Mr. Nelson's board and other goverment agencies. It contains thirty-one practical ways in which farm women declare they can help

Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board, studies the progr...

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War Production Board (WPB) poster. "The Hot Seat." One of the huge posters which employees of the Northern Pump Company, of Minneapolis, place on the sides of freight cars leaving the plant. The ideas originated with the men themselves. In this way the labor-rmanagement committee broadcasts to the countryside its resolve to help win the war. It is estimated that millions of Americans see these traveling posters as they move across the country to their destinations

War Production Board (WPB) poster. "The Hot Seat." One of the huge pos...

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James G. Rolunson [or Robinson], Administrative Officer of War Production

James G. Rolunson [or Robinson], Administrative Officer of War Product...

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Boeing Flying Fortresses. Guns bristling from turrets, these huge Boeing B-17Es are seen cruising high above the clouds. Described by the War Department as "bigger and more deadly" than any previous Flying Fortress, this plane marks the seventh Boeing B-17 type built for the Army since 1935. Armament includes heavy caliber power turrets on top and bottom of the all-metal fuselage, a deadly tail "stinger" turret, and side-mounted guns. These airplanes have been active in the Far East since Pearl Harbor, and are now serving the cause of the United Nations in every part of the world

Boeing Flying Fortresses. Guns bristling from turrets, these huge Boei...

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Donald M. Nelson, chairman, War Production Board (WPB)

Donald M. Nelson, chairman, War Production Board (WPB)

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Production. Copper. Molten copper pouring from a converter at the Garfield, Utah smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Company. This plant is producing vast quantities of the copper so vital for war purposes

Production. Copper. Molten copper pouring from a converter at the Garf...

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Donald M. Nelson, chairman, War Production Board

Donald M. Nelson, chairman, War Production Board

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Keeping score in the war production drive. 3) All squared away for a quick trip to the gallows is our friend Adolf. Here's still another of the "scoreboards" suggested by the War Production Board (WPB) for use in plants which are taking part in the war production drive. Squares are interchanged and their changing pattern keeps pace with the factory's progress toward its goal. When that goal is reached, Herr Hitler's loud mouth has been effectively closed. Make it soon!

Keeping score in the war production drive. 3) All squared away for a ...

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Sugar rationing. Instructions on the use of the war ration book. These instructions apply to ration books which every citizen will receive when sugar rationing begins a few weeks hence

Sugar rationing. Instructions on the use of the war ration book. These...

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Brigadier General Barnes. Brigadier General Barnes, Assistant Chief of Ordnance U.S. Army, and head of the Design Division of the U.S. War Department is now touring Ministry of Supply Munition Factories. General Barnes taking keen interest in the work of Miss Joan Leanoy, who is gauging 25 pdr. gun barrels

Brigadier General Barnes. Brigadier General Barnes, Assistant Chief of...

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Donald M. Nelson, Chairman, War Production Board

Donald M. Nelson, Chairman, War Production Board

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Sugar rationing. Instructions on the use of the war ration book. These instructions apply to ration books which every citizen will receive when sugar rationing begins a few weeks hence

Sugar rationing. Instructions on the use of the war ration book. These...

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There are no islands any more. Lines written in passion and in deep concern for England, France and my own country. Edna St. Vincent Millay. Reprinted by kind permission of Edna St. Vincent Millay for the benefit of the British War relief societ

There are no islands any more. Lines written in passion and in deep co...

0674 D3 25 0. 44.; Rec. 11-25-44. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 133, Folder 33b.

war ration book number two. The back cover of the war ration book number two

war ration book number two. The back cover of the war ration book numb...

Governor Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts officially launches Paul Bunyan woodchopping contest in Massachusetts on Washington's birthday under the sponsorship of Granges and Farm Bureaus in the New England states, New York and Pennsylvania, in cooperation with the War Production Board (WPB) Northeast Lumber Production Campaign. Governor Saltonstall is here shown pulling over a tree he has chopped on his Dover, Massachusetts farm. Farm woodchopping champions of eight Northeast states will be honored in Washington on basis of their individual log production, February 22 to April 1, to provide lumber for war needs

Governor Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts officially launches Pau...

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Poster distributed by Office of War Information to labor organizations, racial and religious organizations, libraries. The original is 28 inches x 20 inches and is printed in black and white. Copies are obtainable from Division of Public Inquiries, OWI, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Poster distributed by Office of War Information to labor organizations...

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War work in the groove. A modern rifling machine cutting the grooves in a gun barrel

War work in the groove. A modern rifling machine cutting the grooves i...

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War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present books when their stamps are used up, will be distributed during the early summer. It contains four pages of "point" stamps, similar to the point stamps in war ration book 2, though slightly different in design and printed in brown ink. It also contains four pages of "unit" stamps for the type of rationing now used for sugar, coffee, and shoes. Each page of fourty-eight stamps bears the design of a different war machine, including guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and planes

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present b...

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Private Mitchie M. Miyamoto, U.S. Army. "Second only to Walt Disney"--that's what the Nineth Armored Division thinks of its cartoonist. He is Private Mitchie M. Miyamoto, twenty-two, an American-born citizen of San Francisco, whose parents are in a Japanese war relocation center. Miyamoto is a "natural" with the drawing pen and ink, and spends his spare time sketching caricatures of his troopmates and officers. He is now on special duty with the public relations section of the Nineth Armored Division

Private Mitchie M. Miyamoto, U.S. Army. "Second only to Walt Disney"--...

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Poster designed by Steven Dohahos, well-known magazine illustrator, for the War Production Board (WPB). The orginal is 29 1/2 x 40 inches and is in four colors -- brown, yellow, red and black. 50,000 copies of this poster have been printed for distribution in war plants. Requests should be sent to Distribution Section, Office of War Information (OWI), Washington, D.C.

Poster designed by Steven Dohahos, well-known magazine illustrator, fo...

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John Lord O'Brian, Director, Legal Division, War Production Board

John Lord O'Brian, Director, Legal Division, War Production Board

Poster. To all who use libraries. Poster distributed by Office of War Information to libraries. The original is 14 1/2 inches x 20 inches and is printed in black and white. Copies may be obtained from Division of Public Inquiries, OWI, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Poster. To all who use libraries. Poster distributed by Office of War ...

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Row on row. Row on row of .50 caliber machine guns, turned out for the war program

Row on row. Row on row of .50 caliber machine guns, turned out for the...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Homes built for defense workers built during the First World War. These homes, located a few blocks from the new ones now being completed, were sold to private concerns after the war. They are still in excellent repair

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Homes built for defense workers b...

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Hamilton W. Wright, center, chief of the Industrial Salvage Branch, Salvage Division, War Production Board, is presented with a handsomely prepared jumbo book by Gordon Lament, right, of New York City, president of the Dairy Industry Supply Association. The book contains copies of the 250 pages of advertising and editorial cooperation contributed by the twenty-two trade publications in the dairy field in connection with special scrap salvage campaign sponsored by the Dairy Industry Supply Association, which covered 30,000 dairy processing firms throughout the country. It is worthy to note that twenty million pounds of critically needed materials were collected against an original objective of a million pounds. Truly a remarkable performance. Eric Webster, left, chief of the General Industrial Equipment Division, WPB, looks on

Hamilton W. Wright, center, chief of the Industrial Salvage Branch, Sa...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan and her small son, Bernie, in the kitchen of the Rogan's new war home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. Rogan is a drill press operator at a nearby plant which is is working three shifts on defense contracts. Mr. Rogan earns $42.50 a week, and spends about twenty percent of his income for rent

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan and her small son...

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Press conference following meeting between Lord Beaverbrook, British Minister of Supply and representatives of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on August 19, 1941 at Washington, D.C. This conference dealt with the question of military and civilian supplies to further the war against Germany

Press conference following meeting between Lord Beaverbrook, British M...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. One of the many machine operations on a partially assembled carriage for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun. This is a typical scene as heavy industry gets into gear in America's war program. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. One of the many machine operations on a par...

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Oil. This is the huge gasoline stabilizing tower of the McKean cracking plant of the Quaker State Refining Company, Bradford, Pennsylvania. Quaker State is one of the many American oil companies working to supply the fuel and lubrication for the war machines of democracy

Oil. This is the huge gasoline stabilizing tower of the McKean crackin...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. A casting is machined for the traversing assembly of a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage. The traversing assembly must be precision-made so that the gunner may follow his swiftly moving target with accuracy. War program production scene in a Pennsylvania heavy industry plant now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. A casting is machined for the traversing as...

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Tank armor production. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania. A few minutes of well-earned rest for a strong, capable man. His work in an Eastern armor plate mill is an important contribution to America's war production drive

Tank armor production. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, P...

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Little Steel fact-finding panel. Little Steel fact-finding panel at final meeting makes ready report to War Labor Board. Left to right, seated at head of table: Richard T. Franksteen, Director of Aircraft, United Automobile Workers, Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), representing labor; Arthur S. Meyer, Chairman, New York State Mediation Board, representing the public; Cyrus Ching, Vice-President, U.S. Rubber Company, representing industry; and Sydney A. Wolff, New York attorney, specially appointed assistant

Little Steel fact-finding panel. Little Steel fact-finding panel at fi...

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Spanish muskrat trapper, telling about the trappers' war, the long fight and difficulties between them and the company men. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Spanish muskrat trapper, telling about the trappers' war, the long fig...

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Trailer occupied by war department employee and wife from Pennsylvania. Trailer camp near Alexandria, Virginia

Trailer occupied by war department employee and wife from Pennsylvania...

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Buffalo head. Symbols of a glorious past join the scrap for freedom. This giant buffalo head is being disposed of as scrap to aid the war effort. The Union Pacific Railroad has notified the Industrial Salvage Section of the War Production (WPB) Board Bureau of Industrial Conservation. It was erected on the road's Missouri River Bridge in 1888 to symbolize the wildness of the Western plains. The weight of the copper bronze buffalo head is estimated to be 2400 pounds, not including 1000 pounds of steel in the framework. It is seven feet six inches high, six feet wide and four feet nine inches thick

Buffalo head. Symbols of a glorious past join the scrap for freedom. T...

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War housing. Langley Field, Newport News, Virginia. Multi-unit apartments for housing married, enlisted personnel at the Army Air base. Construction work on one of the 350 units being built by the Public Buildings Administration under a war authority program at a cost of $1,282,000. The project is over ninety percent completed (July 1941). Rentals run about twenty percent of tenant's income

War housing. Langley Field, Newport News, Virginia. Multi-unit apartme...

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Airplane seat production. See the "V" on the airplane pilot seat? It's the Victory elastic cord which provides the stress needed to counter-balance the pilot's weight during vertical adjustment of the seat. An inspector employed by a large Midwest rubber company now converted to production of war essentials, operates the vertical adjustment release lever which allows movement of the seat while plane is in motion

Airplane seat production. See the "V" on the airplane pilot seat? It's...

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Civilian defense. War Emergency Radio Service. This home-made War Emergency Radio Service transmitter-receiver was constructed by Civilian Defense radio volunteers from parts of old home radio sets. It is used to keep protection units in the field in constant touch with each other and with their control centers

Civilian defense. War Emergency Radio Service. This home-made War Emer...

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A traveling side-show. "Crime Museum," consisting of a dilapidated effigies of famous criminals run by an old, shellshocked World War veteran. Near Silver Lake, North Carolina

A traveling side-show. "Crime Museum," consisting of a dilapidated eff...

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Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. Paint for protection and for camouflage. This masked operator is painting parts that will be assembled into a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Paint for protection and for camouflage. Th...

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Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

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Tug of war. Fourth of July event at Vale, Oregon

Tug of war. Fourth of July event at Vale, Oregon

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Production. Diesel engines. A pattern for a diesel blower housing is checked by the skilled pattern makers of a Midwest engine plant. Good patterns help the war production drive by speeding foundry and machine operations

Production. Diesel engines. A pattern for a diesel blower housing is c...

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Rubber in storage. Preferred stock. It's crude rubber -- and there's more in many warehouses throughout the country to meet our war needs. The 250-pound bales, wrapped in burlap or packed in boxes, are stored in heating and thawing rooms until they attain the proper temperature for processing

Rubber in storage. Preferred stock. It's crude rubber -- and there's m...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. Inspection of a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage parts. With 300-plus-mile-per-hour planes for targets, antiaircraft assembly must be a precision instrument to permit the gunner to keep on his target. Inspection is as rigid as in instrument manufacture. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Inspection of a thirty-seven millimeter ant...

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Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. The final operation in the manufacture of gun carriages for the Bofors forty-millimeter anti-aircraft guns is taking place on this horizontal milling machine. A workman of a large Midwest rubber company converted to war production is milling the top bearing trunion pads or supports. When this operation is complete, the carriage will be ready for attachment to the chassis which supports the gun and barrel

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. The final operation in the manufacture...

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Civilian defense. War Emergency Radio Service. Civilian Defense radio volunteers transformed the auto radio in this auxiliary police car into a a short wave War Emergency Radio Service set, which permits the auxiliary police communications officers to maintain constant two-way contact with his control center

Civilian defense. War Emergency Radio Service. Civilian Defense radio ...

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Historic poem. The first poem of the civil war. "The Great bell Roland." Suggested by President Lincoln's first call for volunteers. By Theodore Tilton. Baltimore, Md. J. H. Furst company, printers. 1941.

Historic poem. The first poem of the civil war. "The Great bell Roland...

On verso of copies 1 and 4: Gift of Mrs. Gouveneur Morrison, January 8, 1942.; On verso of copies 5 and 6: Copyright CIA 413453, Nov. 4, 1942. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two form... More

Left to right are: Al Gerson, buyer; Ben Taft, automobile graveyard inspector, War Production Board (WPB); Frederick G. Zander, seller. Close up of U.S. inspector of auto graveyards with buyer and seller of buses inside one of the buses

Left to right are: Al Gerson, buyer; Ben Taft, automobile graveyard in...

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Subcontracting (Beery and Sons). Plant conversion means machine conversion. This lathe at the Beery and Sons shop in Harrisonburg, Virginia, is being fitted for production of a small part needed by a war contractor. To the left of the lathe are some of the hurriedly constructed jigs and chucks turned out at the shop to speed delivery of various bits and pieces, often cutting the schedule as high as ninety-percent

Subcontracting (Beery and Sons). Plant conversion means machine conver...

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Steel production. Iron for our war machine. A busy blast furnace and the boiler house of another furnace are the background for a train of cinder ladles. Republic, Youngstown

Steel production. Iron for our war machine. A busy blast furnace and t...

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Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission being inspected at the first OPM (Office of Production Management) permanent exhibit at which samples of needed defense equipment and parts are shown to prospective producers. The exhibit opened on Tuesday, December 23 in the Boatmen's Bank building in Saint Louis, Missouri. Bits and pieces of needed war goods were exhibited by fourty-eight holders of large war contracts and by the Army, Navy and the U.S. Maritime Commission. It is planned to change the articles displayed in this exhibit as some of them become placed under contracts and subcontracts. Representatives of the Contract Distribution Division will be available regularly to advise manufacturers attending the exhibit. Similar routine exhibits are scheduled to open shortly in other cities throughout the country

Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission bein...

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Tug of war. Fourth of July celebration. Vale, Oregon

Tug of war. Fourth of July celebration. Vale, Oregon

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. This master machinist lays out the precision parts that go to make up a thirty-seven millimeter anti-aircraft gun carriage. Swift flying planes present a difficult target, the anti-aircraft gun must be a precision instrument. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. This master machinist lays out the precisi...

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Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

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War Board launches auto graveyard program. W.F. Breuer, regional representative of the Auto Salvage Section, War Production Board, starts preliminary survey of jaloppies available for war production use. Miss Jane McCullough of the WPB local office takes notes

War Board launches auto graveyard program. W.F. Breuer, regional repre...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. The elevating mechanism is assembled on a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage nearing completion. Care and precision is the watchword in the assembling of these mechanisms. A 300-mile-per-hour target requires a precision instrument to allow the gunner to stay with it. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. The elevating mechanism is assembled on a t...

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This plaque, bearing a design showing a plow, anchor and steam hammer, symbolizing the agriculture, commerce and manufacturing of the east, is being disposed of as scrap to aid the war effort. The Union Pacific Railroad has notified the Industrial Salvage Section of the War Production Board (WPB) Bureau of Industrial Conservation. It was erected on the road's Missouri River Bridge in 1888. The weight of the plaque is estimated at 1000 pounds of bronze and steel, including frame supports. It is five feet high, six feet wide and four inches thick

This plaque, bearing a design showing a plow, anchor and steam hammer,...

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Dutch Gross, ex world war veteran, trapeze artist, airplane stunt man, friend of "Spike" Conner, the famous blood donner, and the only man to fall out of an airplane at 2000 feet and live (he fell on high tension wire) Better known as "the Flying Dutchman," he has made a profession of operating businesses in one defense "boom" area after another. Now runs a small lunch room and grocery store at Kymulga, near Childersburg, Alabama

Dutch Gross, ex world war veteran, trapeze artist, airplane stunt man,...

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War production drive. William Hunter, a member of the labor-management committe at the East Pittsburgh Division of Westinghouse, explains the "Let's show them" campaign, an adaption of the War Production Drive. "Let's show the Axis what real production means," Mr. Hunter exorts the plant workers

War production drive. William Hunter, a member of the labor-management...

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Steel production. Iron production for war industry. There's plenty of activity in the row of boiler house stacks, in the roaring blast furnace and the stock trestle that serves them. Republic, Youngstown

Steel production. Iron production for war industry. There's plenty of ...

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Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

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War housing. Hale Homes, Portsmouth, Virginia. A 300-unit project to house civilian workers employed at the Norfolk Navy Yard. These homes, constructed at a cost of $1,114,748 by the USHA (U.S. Housing Authority) through the local housing authority, are permanent and are expected to continue after the emergency as part of the local authority's low-rent housing project. Rents are divided into three groups which run from a low of $19 to a high of $39 a month. The project completed on February, 1941, consists almost entirely of apartment-type dwellings

War housing. Hale Homes, Portsmouth, Virginia. A 300-unit project to h...

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A close up of a tank on display. Tank howitzer cannon.

A close up of a tank on display. Tank howitzer cannon.

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Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Heavy presses trim the edges of army helmets that have been formed on drawing presses. All these presses, which were stamping out auto radiator parts a short time ago, were retooled for conversion to war work. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Heavy presses trim the edg...

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. Carl Westin, whose father Olaf and mother Elsa come from the town of Sandarne, province of Helsingland, Sweden. He is now working in a small machine shop turning out tools and dies for the war plants in the Minneapolis area

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Carl Westin, whose father Olaf and mother Elsa...

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Production. Tin smelting. Acid tanks at a Southern tin smelter--the finest and most modern plant in the world. The acid is used in one of the processes of separating the tin from the impurities in the ore. Construction is still going on at this plant, which has already achieved a heavy output of the pure tin needed for countless war uses of the United Nations

Production. Tin smelting. Acid tanks at a Southern tin smelter--the fi...

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Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Race tracks, fairgrounds and rodeo grounds have been utilized throughout the state for reception centers for these Japanese

Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanes...

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War production drive sticker. The war production drive headquarters. The War Production Board (WPB) produced these stickers for distribution in war plants. They were designed for pasting on workers' machines to stimulate output of vital war materials. Sheets of assorted stickers may be obtained by writing Distribution Section, War Production Drive Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

War production drive sticker. The war production drive headquarters. T...

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Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Pipeliners at lunch

Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Lo...

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Chicago schoolchildren buy 263,148.83 in war bonds. In a special war bond campaign which began April fourteenth and was ended May twelfth, the public schoolchildren of the South-Central District of Chicago purchased 263,148.83 in war bonds and stamps, enough money to by 125 jeeps, two pursuit planes and a motorcycle. Photo shows one of the jeeps being christened in the war bond rally in Washington Park on June fourth. Twenty-four public schools participated in the campaign

Chicago schoolchildren buy 263,148.83 in war bonds. In a special war b...

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A poster comes to life. Two soldiers learn about each other's contribution to the war effort in the shadow of one of the nation's roaring steel furnaces. Sergeant French Vinyard tells this Allegheny-Ludlum electrician about life in the Army and learns in turn what it takes to turn out the weapons of victory on the industrial battlefront. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

A poster comes to life. Two soldiers learn about each other's contribu...

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San Juan Bautista, California. Schoolchildren assembled to march in parade with the scrap metal they have collected for war

San Juan Bautista, California. Schoolchildren assembled to march in pa...

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Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Electric welder at work

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline ...

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bernard L. Lukin, twenty-eight. His mother is Danish, his father is Norwegian. He is working in a small machine shop turning out tools and dies for war plants in the Minneapolis area

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bernard L. Lukin, twenty-eight. His mother is ...

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Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission (WMC). Miss Margaret A. Hickey, Chairman, Women's Policy Committee of War Manpower Commission

Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission (WMC). Miss Ma...

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Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July 1943. Caterpillar operator on the right of way gang

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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Production. War housing trailers. Multiple duty for war housing trailer tires. Back from a trailer housing site comes this Department of Agriculture truck with 150 tires on which new war housing trailers were delivered from the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Upon delivery, trailers are shifted to horses. Wheels and tires are removed and sent back for the delivery of other wooden trailers. The original plan was to leave them on the trailers to make fast evacuation of trailers and workers possible. The acute tire shortage made the plan unfeasible

Production. War housing trailers. Multiple duty for war housing traile...

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First meeting of labor management policy committee of the War Manpower Commission. Seated -- left to right: Fowler Harper, deputy chairman of War Manpower Commission (WMC); R. Conrad Cooper of Wheeling Steel Corporation; Arthur S. Flemming of Civil Service Commission, chairman; Clinton S. Golden, United Steel Workers of America, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO); John P. Frey, American Federation of Labor (AFL), president, Metal Trades. Standing -- left to right: R.E. Gillmore, president, Sperry Gyroscope Company; R. Randall Irwin, director, industrial relations, Lockheed Vega Aircraft Corporation; H.A. Enochs, chief of personnel, Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Brigadier General Frank J. McSherry, director of operations, War Manpower Commission; Walter P. Reuther, member of United Automobile Workers, CIO; John Green, Marine and Shiipbuilding Workers, CIO; George Masterton, Steam Fitters and Plumbers, AFL; Joseph S. McDonagh, secretary treasurer, Building Trades, AFL

First meeting of labor management policy committee of the War Manpower...

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U.S. Maritime Commission poster. Poster distributed by the U.S. Maritime Commission to U.S. employment offices, hotels, taverns, post offices, labor unions, etc. The original comes in two sizes: 28 1/2 inches by 40 inches, and 14 1/4 inches by 20 inches, and is printed in red, blue, and black on white. Copies may be obtained from Bureau of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information (OWI), 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

U.S. Maritime Commission poster. Poster distributed by the U.S. Mariti...

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Production. Marine boilers. Burning a hole in a large hyperbolic valve block that will be part of a hyperbolic press in a powder factory. Site: a Midwest plant converted to war production

Production. Marine boilers. Burning a hole in a large hyperbolic valve...

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Citation winners. At the White House, certificate winner George Smolarek (left), employee of the Aircraft Engine Department, Packard Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, and citation winner Walter H. Hill, employed by the Wolverine Tube Division of the Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company, Detriot, Michigan, meet "Miss Victory," also a Detroit war worker

Citation winners. At the White House, certificate winner George Smolar...

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Girls on wheels expedite aircraft production. Roller skates. Literally helping to speed the war effort, Dolores Richardson and Geneva Carpenter are ""expeditors" at Douglas Aircraft in El Segundo, California, where they deliver inter-departmental messages on roller skates

Girls on wheels expedite aircraft production. Roller skates. Literally...

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