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Bronze statuette of a satyr with a torch and wineskin

Bronze statuette of a satyr with a torch and wineskin

Public domain photo of Greek sculpture, ancient civilizations, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Marble sarcophagus fragment: Eros leaning on a reversed torch

Marble sarcophagus fragment: Eros leaning on a reversed torch

Relief of Eros with a torch. Mid-Imperial, Antonine Public domain photograph of archaeological object, Roman Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gold ring with carnelian intaglio: Eros with flaming torch

Gold ring with carnelian intaglio: Eros with flaming torch

Public domain photograph of 3d object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Bronze statuette of a satyr with a torch and wineskin

Bronze statuette of a satyr with a torch and wineskin

Bronze figure of a man holding a gun and a gun, ancient Greek or Roman free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Study of Figures: an Old Man Holding a Hat and Facing Forwards, and a Young Man Holding a Torch and a Hat, seen from both the Front and Left Sides; Verso: Study of a Head

Study of Figures: an Old Man Holding a Hat and Facing Forwards, and a ...

Public domain photo of Antique sculpture, Europe, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Symbol of St. John: eagle, with (7) banner of the Agnus Dei (without lamb), (8) couple committing adultery (both holding a torch), (9) eye, (10) shepherd's crook, (11) skull, (12) ointment-jar

Symbol of St. John: eagle, with (7) banner of the Agnus Dei (without l...

Public domain scan of a medieval manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

St. Lucy of Syracuse holding a palm and a book and St. Barbara holding a torch and a palm

St. Lucy of Syracuse holding a palm and a book and St. Barbara holding...

Public domain scan of a medieval manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Torch Holder, 14th century - Public domain dedication museum photo

Torch Holder, 14th century - Public domain dedication museum photo

Made in Austria? Public domain photograph of an archaeological object, Europe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Torch Holder, 14th century - Public domain dedication museum photo

Torch Holder, 14th century - Public domain dedication museum photo

A cast iron ladle with a handle, Europe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Man with Torch between Flaming Altar and Statuette

Man with Torch between Flaming Altar and Statuette

Public domain reproduction of art print, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Battista Franco - Man with Torch at Temple Door

Battista Franco - Man with Torch at Temple Door

Engraved by Anonymous, Italian, 16th century Public domain scan of Italian 15th-16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hercules and the Hydra; wielding a torch he attacks the winged, multi-headed Hydra in rocky landscape, a hawk attacks a heron in the sky

Hercules and the Hydra; wielding a torch he attacks the winged, multi-...

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A plague scene at right, a man at left holding a torch illuminating part of the scene, ill people at the right

A plague scene at right, a man at left holding a torch illuminating pa...

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?)) Public domain scan of Italian 15th-16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A plague scene at right, a man at left holding a torch illuminating part of the scene at left, ill people at the right

A plague scene at right, a man at left holding a torch illuminating pa...

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?)) Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Instruments of the Passion: cock on a column, dice, rope, seamless garment, sword (with Malchus' ear), torch

Instruments of the Passion: cock on a column, dice, rope, seamless gar...

Public domain scan of a medieval manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Plate 14: Ceres in a niche, facing right, standing over a two-headed snake and holding a half-moon sickle in her right hand and a torch in her left hand, from a series of mythological gods and goddesses

Plate 14: Ceres in a niche, facing right, standing over a two-headed s...

Public domain image of a mythological scene, classic mythology, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Angelica and Medoro; the couple embracing, Medoro carving their names in the bark of a tree; Cupid holding a torch in the background

Angelica and Medoro; the couple embracing, Medoro carving their names ...

Public domain photo of Italian art print, 17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Air, represented by Iris reclining on her rainbow, accompanied by a winged putto bearing a torch and another winged putto riding an eagle, from the series 'The Elements'

Air, represented by Iris reclining on her rainbow, accompanied by a wi...

Public domain image of print or drawing, symbolism or allegory, depicting saint, winged creature, Icarus, flying angel, religious figure, flight, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A young boy holds a torch under trees in a garden, at center a man raises both arms, surrounded by male and female figures, from a series of five illustrations after Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint-Quentin for 'The mad day, or the marriage of Figaro' (La Folle journée, ou le mariage de Figaro) by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

A young boy holds a torch under trees in a garden, at center a man rai...

Public domain reproduction of art print, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Study of Figures: an Old Man Holding a Hat and Facing Forwards, and a Young Man Holding a Torch and a Hat, seen from both the Front and Left Sides; Verso: Study of a Head

Study of Figures: an Old Man Holding a Hat and Facing Forwards, and a ...

Public domain photo of sculpture, Netherlands, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Harlequin menaces Scaramouche with a Torch, Jacques Gabriel Huquier

Harlequin menaces Scaramouche with a Torch, Jacques Gabriel Huquier

Claude Gillot (French, Langres 1673–1722 Paris) Public domain scan of 17th-century etching print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain scan of 18th-century etching p... More

Five numbered scenes, each after a painter in the Accademia Degl'Incamminati, from IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTINO CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno: 1. Painting and Poetry mourning the death of Agostino Carracci, painted by Francesco Brizio; 2. Painting with a lyre and Apollo pointing to stars on Carracci's grave, design by Giacomo Cavedone; 3. The head of Christ, painted by Agostino Carracci; 4. Prometheus with a torch and Athena behind him, painted by Alessandro Albini; 5. Aurora abducting Cephalus, painted by Leonello Spada.

Five numbered scenes, each after a painter in the Accademia Degl'Incam...

Public domain reproduction of Italian art print, 17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by three men and a child bearing a torch, the Baptist's body lies on the ground, an oval composition

Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by three men...

Public domain image of a 16th-17th-century print, mannerism, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by three men and a child bearing a torch, the Baptist's body lies on the ground, an oval composition

Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by three men...

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Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by three men and a child bearing a torch, the Baptist's body lies on the ground, an oval composition

Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by three men...

Public domain image of a 16th-17th-century print, mannerism, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by three men and a child bearing a torch, the Baptist's body lies on the ground, an oval composition

Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by three men...

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Earth, represented by Cybele seated at the base of a tree with fruits of the earth spread before her, a cupid with a torch approaches from the right, a stag and hound look toward Cybele from the left, from the series 'The Elements'

Earth, represented by Cybele seated at the base of a tree with fruits ...

Public domain image of a mythological scene, classic mythology, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Air, represented by Iris reclining on her rainbow, accompanied by a winged putto bearing a torch and another winged putto riding an eagle, from "The Elements"

Air, represented by Iris reclining on her rainbow, accompanied by a wi...

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Earth, represented by Cybele seated at the base of a tree with fruits of the earth spread before her, a cupid with a torch approaches from the right, a stag and hound look toward Cybele from the left, from "The Elements"

Earth, represented by Cybele seated at the base of a tree with fruits ...

Public domain image of a mythological scene, classic mythology, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by three men and a child bearing a torch, the Baptist's body lies on the ground, an oval composition

Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by three men...

Public domain image of a 16th-17th-century print, mannerism, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

François Boucher - Two Cupids, One Carrying a Torch, Another a Bow

François Boucher - Two Cupids, One Carrying a Torch, Another a Bow

Pierre Alexandre Aveline (French, Paris 1702–1760 Paris) Public domain scan of French 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Botanical plate with thistle, Chelsea porcelain manufactory, London, England

Botanical plate with thistle, Chelsea porcelain manufactory, London, E...

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Botanical plate with wavy angled torch thistle, Chelsea porcelain manufactory

Botanical plate with wavy angled torch thistle, Chelsea porcelain manu...

Public domain photograph of 3d object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Young woman with a torch and vase gem

Young woman with a torch and vase gem

Public domain photo of Italian sculpture, 3d object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Glass cameo: Eros holding a torch

Glass cameo: Eros holding a torch

Glass objects, Roman Empire. Public domain photograph of archaeological object, Roman Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Robinson Crusoe with torch approaching goat in dark cave]

[Robinson Crusoe with torch approaching goat in dark cave]

Title devised by cataloger. Purchase; (DLC/PP-1982:125.40). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Robinson Crusoe, Chapt. XIX, p. 254.

[Assemblage of the Statue of Liberty in Paris, showing the bottom half of the statue erect under scaffolding, the head and torch at its feet.]

[Assemblage of the Statue of Liberty in Paris, showing the bottom half...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York - the torch of the Statue of "Liberty," as it will appear when completed, on Bedloe's Island

New York - the torch of the Statue of "Liberty," as it will appear whe...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1885 June 20, p. 288.

Completing the torch, Statue of Liberty

Completing the torch, Statue of Liberty

R24222 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Cherub lighting firecracker with torch as stars fly through word "Life"]

[Cherub lighting firecracker with torch as stars fly through word "Lif...

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as frontispiece in: Life, 8:1 (July 1, 1886).

Statue of Liberty - top of head seen from the torch, New York

Statue of Liberty - top of head seen from the torch, New York

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ellis Island, N.Y. - view from the torch of "Liberty"

Ellis Island, N.Y. - view from the torch of "Liberty"

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Photo by George G. Bain. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). No. 13-3.

Mrs. Van Winkle and Suffrage torch

Mrs. Van Winkle and Suffrage torch

A woman in a dress and hat holding a torch. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Just Lady Liberty's torch - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Just Lady Liberty's torch - Public Domain image, National Parks Galler...

The torch of the Statue of Liberty and the hand that holds it high.

[Lightning from Liberty's torch striking a cowering German official]

[Lightning from Liberty's torch striking a cowering German official]

German official possibly representing William II, Emperor of Germany. Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as headpiec... More

Airplanes - Manufacturing Plants - Brazing with acetylene torch. Standard Aircraft Corp. Elizabeth, N.J

Airplanes - Manufacturing Plants - Brazing with acetylene torch. Stand...

Photographer: Standard Aircraft Corp. Elizabeth, N.J. Airplanes - Manufacturing Plants Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Pic... More

The torch that fires the opening gun

The torch that fires the opening gun

Woman draped in American flag lighting cannon with Statue of Liberty torch; "Fourth Liberty loan" in smoke. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published i... More

[Leopards and bacchantes in torch procession to water with Pan in background]

[Leopards and bacchantes in torch procession to water with Pan in back...

Title devised by cataloger. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as border for: "Bacchus is Gone" by Harvey Allen, Li... More

Hull Maintenance Technician 3rd Class Jeremy Hanel uses a cutting torch to cut apart old shelving aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68).

Hull Maintenance Technician 3rd Class Jeremy Hanel uses a cutting torc...

Pacific Ocean (Oct. 27, 2006) Hull Maintenance Technician 3rd Class Jeremy Hanel uses a cutting torch to cut apart old shelving aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz is current... More

Trouble with Back Fire Torch - Bureau of Indian Affairs

Trouble with Back Fire Torch - Bureau of Indian Affairs

Original caption: Miscellaneous (trouble with back fire torch). Pine Ridge Agency: Miscellaneous Photographs

Better Luck with a Simpler Torch - Bureau of Indian Affairs

Better Luck with a Simpler Torch - Bureau of Indian Affairs

Original caption: Miscellaneous (better luck with a simpler torch). Pine Ridge Agency: Miscellaneous Photographs

Torch and Apparatus for Using Hydrogen Gas

Torch and Apparatus for Using Hydrogen Gas

Original caption: 3270. torch and Apparatus for Using Hydroge [sic] Gas. Navy Yard. Phila. Jan. 30, 1923. General Correspondence

A Painter Removing Paint from a Boat with a Hydrogen Torch

A Painter Removing Paint from a Boat with a Hydrogen Torch

Original caption: 3269. Method of Using Hydrogen Torch for Removing Paint. Navy Yard, Phila. Jan. 30, 1923. General Correspondence

A Painter Removing Paint from a Boat with a Hydrogen Torch

A Painter Removing Paint from a Boat with a Hydrogen Torch

Original caption: 3274. Hydrogen Torch for Removing Old Paint with Accessories, Navy Yard, Phila. Feb. [?], 1923. General Correspondence

Karlstads-Tidningens Lucia 1938. Värmlands Sverige

Karlstads-Tidningens Lucia 1938. Värmlands Sverige

Karlstads-Tidningens Lucia 1938. Public domain photograph of procession, parade in Sweden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of men standing next to each other on train tracks, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of men standing next to each other on train tracks, West Virg...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a miner, coal mine, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Light symbol of world peace. Washington, D.C., Nov. 4. A torch, symbolic of peace and amity, was lighted last night before the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. After ceremonies conducted by the American Legion, the torch was sent on its way to Paris for observance of Armistice Day there at the Arc De Triomphe. Similar torches lighted at the shrines of honored dead are being sent by every allied country and each department of France. In the center of group, left to right - D.C., Department Commander of the American Legion James T. Brody, Col. E.E. Lombard, French Military Attache, and Lieut. Horace Lineburg, also of the legion, lighting the torch, 11/4/38

Light symbol of world peace. Washington, D.C., Nov. 4. A torch, symbol...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, coffin, grave, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of men standing next to each other on train tracks, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A group of men standing next to each other on train tracks, West Virgi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks, West Virginia. Farm ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man standing on train tracks, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man standing on train tracks, West Virgin...

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Light symbol of world peace. Washington, D.C., Nov. 4. A torch, symbolic of peace and amity, was lighted last night before the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. After ceremonies conducted by the American Legion, the torch was sent on its way to Paris for observance of Armistice Day there at the Arc De Triomphe. Similar torches lighted at the shrines of honored dead are being sent by every allied country and each department of France. In the center of group, left to right - D.C., Department Commander of the American Legion James T. Brody, Col. E.E. Lombard, French Military Attache, and Lieut. Horace Lineburg, also of the legion, lighting the torch, 11438

Light symbol of world peace. Washington, D.C., Nov. 4. A torch, symbol...

A black and white photo of a group of men in uniform, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. ... More

Light symbol of world peace. Washington, D.C., Nov. 4. A torch, symbolic of peace and amity, was lighted last night before the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. After ceremonies conducted by the American Legion, the torch was sent on its way to Paris for observance of Armistice Day there at the Arc De Triomphe. Similar torches lighted at the shrines of honored dead are being sent by every allied country and each department of France. In the center of group, left to right - D.C., Department Commander of the American Legion James T. Brody, Col. E.E. Lombard, French Military Attache, and Lieut. Horace Lineburg, also of the legion, lighting the torch, 11/4/38

Light symbol of world peace. Washington, D.C., Nov. 4. A torch, symbol...

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A black and white photo of a train yard, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a train yard, West Virginia. Farm Security ...

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Korean War Veteran Mr. Glbert Lyons (left) passes the Olympic flame to World War Two (WWII) Veteran, US Air Force (USAF) Colonel (COL) (Retired) Frank E. Herrelko Sr., during his leg of the 2002 Olympic Torch Relay in Washington, D.C

Korean War Veteran Mr. Glbert Lyons (left) passes the Olympic flame to...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Jim Varhegyi, USAF Release Status: Released to Pub... More

World War Two (WWII) Veteran, US Air Force (USAF) Colonel (COL) (Retired) Frank E. Herrelko Sr. (front), Vietnam Veteran Mr. Earl Gillespie (center) and Korean War Veteran Mr. Glbert Lyons participate in the 2002 Olympic Torch Relay in Washington, D.C

World War Two (WWII) Veteran, US Air Force (USAF) Colonel (COL) (Retir...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Jim Varhegyi, USAF Release Status: Released to Pub... More

World War Two (WWII) Veteran, US Air Force (USAF) Colonel (COL) (Retired) Frank E. Herrelko Sr., carries the Olympic flame during his leg of the 2002 Olympic Torch Relay in Washington, D.C

World War Two (WWII) Veteran, US Air Force (USAF) Colonel (COL) (Retir...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Jim Varhegyi, USAF Release Status: Released to Pub... More

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...

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Civilian protection. Members of the rescue parties like this worker must be prepared to reach victims of bomb raids and fallen debris and give them emergency first aid treatment. It is not always possible to remove debris by hand, therefore, rescue workers' trucks carry equipment to enable the rescue squad to shore up masonry, cut through steel or stone, shut off broken mains or tunnel through conglomerate heaps of debris. The worker here shown is using an acetylene torch to cut away a stubborn resisting piece of expanded steel

Civilian protection. Members of the rescue parties like this worker mu...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This welder is torch flaming a part for a new destroyer on the ways at the Norfolk Navy Yard. Riveted joints have been cut down by as much as two-thirds in the last few years, as welding has been developed to a point where it provides equal strength. Welding means less weight and a saving in steel

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This welder is torch flaming a part ...

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Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with whatever difficulties they may encounter, these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen workers are climbling up a fire ladder to the roof of a building struck by bombs. Fartherest up the ladder is a worker equipped with an "Indian" fire pump, valuable in fighting incendiary bombs. The man below him is carrying a two-way portable radio. Next is a volunteer worker with a portable acetylene torch, used for cutting through metal to effect entrances or to extricate victims pinned under fallen metal. The man just starting up the ladder is carrying a roof rope, and all are equipped with gas masks

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with whatever difficulties...

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Acetelyne torch cutting, structural shop. Keystone Drilling Company, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

Acetelyne torch cutting, structural shop. Keystone Drilling Company, B...

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Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...

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Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...

Public domain photograph of New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...

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Acetelyne torch cutting. Structural shop, Keystone Drilling Company. Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

Acetelyne torch cutting. Structural shop, Keystone Drilling Company. B...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Ratchets, turnbuckles and "dogs" hold these deck units of a new Liberty ship in place as a welder in a large Eastern shipyard uses the torch to fuse them

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Ratchets, turnbuckles and "dogs" hold t...

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Newport News, Virginia. Cutter working on frame shapes with an oxyacetylene torch. These frame shapes are used for the ribs of a ship

Newport News, Virginia. Cutter working on frame shapes with an oxyacet...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important advances in shipbuilding during the present century with the torch resulting in immense savings in time, material and weight in the building of ships. This welder is joining side plates to angle frames forming section of the propeller shaft tunnels on a new member of Uncle Sam's Liberty ships, under construction at a large Eastern shipyard which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important ad...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Right through the metal cute this acetylene torch, directed by the skilled hands of one of the thousands of workers in the yard. This plate will be taken by an overhead crane to the building ways, where it will become a part of one of the Navy's new battlecraft

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Right through the metal cute this ac...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important advances in shipbuilding during the present century with the torch resulting in immense savings in time, material and weight in the building of ships. This welder is joining side plates to angle frames forming section of the propeller shaft tunnels on a new member of Uncle Sam's "Liberty fleet," under construction at a large Eastern shipyard.All parts are prefabricated in thus huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important ad...

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Women in war. Machine gun production operators. She carries a torch for the men of America's armed forces! Blonde, twenty-one-year-old Elne Nigholm brazes bolt latch releases for the Army's machine guns in a Midwest plant which has been converted from the manufacture of spark plugs to production of war materials. Two thousand women now work in this plant, with more to be added as production increases. A.C. Spark Plugs

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. She carries a torch fo...

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Using acetylene torch to remove tops of eggs under completely sterile conditions. These eggs have been innoculated with yellow fever vaccine virus. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Using acetylene torch to remove tops of eggs under completely sterile ...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Pipe fittings for the Army. An automatic torch cuts a pipe elbow to size in a Midwest plant. Elbows are cut to any length and angle from bent pipes. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Pipe fittings for the Army. An automatic to...

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High school Victory Corps. Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, California, teaches its students trades which fit them to help in the war program. This Negro boy is learning the use of an acetylene torch

High school Victory Corps. Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, Calif...

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Herbert Rudolph James, machinist, Shell Finish Department, National Tube Company, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a Certificate of Individual Production Merit. Mr. James is by profession a musician--organist and conductor. At his suggestion a mechanism was incorporated into the torch whereby the oxygen and acetylene mixtures could be varied to create the desired flame

Herbert Rudolph James, machinist, Shell Finish Department, National Tu...

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Aluminum casting. To insure against cracking when metal is poured into it this sand-filled mold is skin dried with a gas torch, one of the many major delicate operations required of employees of a large Midwest aluminum factory. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

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Manpower, junior size. Proud young fighters in Uncle Sam's junior army visit a scrap yard in Roanoke, Virginia to see for themselves what happens to the scrap they collect for our war industries. One of the workers explains to the children how the acetylene torch he holds cuts heavy metal into the shapes required for melting by the steel mills

Manpower, junior size. Proud young fighters in Uncle Sam's junior army...

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Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. The ability to "saw" metal with flame is a skill which has many important applications in the war effort. This young Negro is receiving expert instruction in the art of cutting steel with an acetylene torch, just one phase of the training given at a WPA vocational training school in the District of Columbia

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. The ab...

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Automobile salvage. The torch man cuts the motor from the frame, and the frame from the body, then these parts are sorted for shipment. The springs and drive shaft are cut from the frame by torch, as are the differential and transmission

Automobile salvage. The torch man cuts the motor from the frame, and t...

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Using acetylene torch to take tops off eggs under completely sterile conditions. These eggs have been innoculated with yellow fever vaccine virus. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Using acetylene torch to take tops off eggs under completely sterile c...

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Denver, Colorado. This workman has gone "all out" to speed up the Navy's unique shipbuilding program here in this mile-high city--the world's largest city not on a navigable waterway. Even though he has never seen an ocean or a ship larger than the pleasure launch on Denver's city park lake, the steel worker behind this acetylene torch is no less a shipbuilder! He is one of the workers in the eight Denver fabricating firms turning out hull parts in a 56 million dollar which means more escort vessels for Uncle Sam's Navy--vessels made in Denver and assembled at Mare Island Navy Yard 1,300 miles away

Denver, Colorado. This workman has gone "all out" to speed up the Navy...

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Automobile salvage. Automobile bodies are usually cut into four pieces so they can be readily loaded into a press for baling. The acetylene torch separates the lightweight body from the heavyweight steel frame of the car. Note: the auto has already been burned to remove all wooden parts, upholstery, oil, grease and other unusable and inflammable material

Automobile salvage. Automobile bodies are usually cut into four pieces...

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Using acetylene torch to break up metal scrap before shipment from a wholesale junk yard

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Using acetyl...

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Automobile salvage. Before the torch men, shear men, and press operators go to work on an old automobile, all wooden parts, upholstery, oil, grease and other unusable and inflammable material are removed by burning

Automobile salvage. Before the torch men, shear men, and press operato...

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. The flame of the welder's torch is today's flame of freedom! At this WPA vocational training school in Washington, D.C., welding trainees keep their torches blazing day and night, preparing for jobs in war industries

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. The fl...

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Conversion. Automobile industry. An acetylene torch is rolled into place with a big job scheduled for it, the dismantling of auto production equipment in an automobile factory, so that conversion to war production can begin. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. An acetylene torch is rolled into pla...

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Women airport workers. Evelyn Spangler, eighteen-years-old, is just as proficient at acetylene torch welding as any of the men welders in the Pennsylvania Central shops, according to Johnny Shore, her instructor. Evelyn learned welding rudiments from her father in Christiansburg, Virginia, got more experienced at the vocational school at Manassas, Virginia, and then joined the repair crew at the Washington National Airport. Now no welding job is too difficult for her to tackle

Women airport workers. Evelyn Spangler, eighteen-years-old, is just as...

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De Soto bomber plant, Detroit, Michigan. Woman worker using brazing torch to solder bolts on end of pipe

De Soto bomber plant, Detroit, Michigan. Woman worker using brazing to...

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Women in war. Machine gun production operators. She carries a torch for the men of America's armed forces! Blonde, twenty-one-year-old Elne Nigholm brazes bolt latch releases for the Army's machine guns in a Midwest plant which has been converted from the manufacture of spark plugs to production of war materials. Two thousand women now work in this plant, with more to be added as production increases. A.C. Spark Plugs

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. She carries a torch fo...

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