Aluminum casting. Storage room in a large Midwest aluminum plant where certified aluminum ingots or "pigs" are stacked.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307071/image-background-plant-roomFree Image from public domain license
New recruits for America's armies. Halftrac scout cars ready for delivery from the Midwest plant at which they were made.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306617/image-plant-person-factoryFree Image from public domain license
Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This giant plate roller, of German design, is used to roll cold steel shell plates for… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307143/image-plant-person-airplaneFree Image from public domain license
Conversion. Safety razor plant. He used to make razor blades, but now he's a vital cog in Uncle Sam's war production… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306857/image-plant-hand-personFree Image from public domain license
Production. Shell loading. Nonchalantly loading a two-ton "block buster" at a large Midwest plant. Every precaution is… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308697/image-face-plant-personFree Image from public domain license
Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. Four major welding operations are essential to the manufacture… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302112/image-person-technology-womanFree Image from public domain license
Dr. Carl C. Monrad, Consultant, Petroleum Unit, Industrial Materials, Petroleum, Chemical, and Allied Products Section… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306770/image-face-paper-personFree Image from public domain license
Production. Machine guns of various calibers. Walter Newman, operator of a high-speed lathe in a large firearms plant… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307910/image-plant-person-womenFree Image from public domain license
Aluminum casting. Finished pistons are wrapped and packed for shipment to ordnance depots: they're scheduled for use in army… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302023/image-person-shirt-factoryFree Image from public domain license
Production. B-17F heavy bomber. Working on the roof of a B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber swung over on its side in the Boeing… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240863/photo-image-plant-person-airplaneFree Image from public domain license
Women in industry. Tool production. Testing small diameter, high-speed twist drills, this young woman employed by a Midwest… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306834/image-face-hand-personFree Image from public domain license
Women in war. Machine gun production operators. Operating a multiple drill press with speed and accuracy, this young woman… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307788/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Thousands of miles of tubing, stacked in one of Willow Run's enormous supply rooms… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306832/image-plant-person-planeFree Image from public domain license
Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrels for the U.S. Army are machined and… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306579/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Montgomery Blair High school Victory Corps. Montgomery Blair High School girls are being trained for positions in war… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307003/image-face-person-shirtFree Image from public domain license
Production. C-47 transport planes. Great numbers of C-47 transport planes move along the assembly lines at the Douglas… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307340/image-plant-person-planesFree Image from public domain license
De Land pool. La Roe shop. Interior of the La Roe garage shop at Eustis, Louisiana, showing the precision machines on which… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240404/photo-image-person-technology-factoryFree Image from public domain license
Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Drawing seamless copper tube. Rough cast tubes tapered at one end to fit through a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306817/image-person-factory-manFree Image from public domain license
Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Kay Lamphear, half American Indian and half Scotch-Norwegian, has joined the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307237/image-face-plant-personFree Image from public domain license
Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Attaching body parts to a halftrac scout car in the converted Eastern plant of a lock… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307331/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Production. B-17F heavy bomber. An electric spot welding job on a part for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers at the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307386/image-face-plant-handFree Image from public domain license
Production. M-4 tanks. Arc welders work on the partly-completed hull of a new M-4 tank at the Schenectady, New York, plant… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307370/image-plant-person-factoryFree Image from public domain license
Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Employed by a local subcontractor for Baxter Laboratories Inc., Glenview, Illinois… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306700/image-hand-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Cylinder barrels for Pratt and Whitney airplane motors must undergo rigid… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308158/image-plants-person-airplaneFree Image from public domain license
Manpower. Handicapped workers. Joseph Witte, twenty-eight years old, is one of Uncle Sam's disabled war workers. With both… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307575/image-hand-person-airplaneFree Image from public domain license
New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem of transporting defense workers to outlying industrial… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239947/photo-image-plant-persons-skyFree Image from public domain license
Doren Bishop, Robin Mines Superintendent for the Alma Coal Corporation, Looks at the Opening of a New Mine near Clothier and… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770380/photo-image-plant-tree-personFree Image from public domain license
Manpower. Americans all. Operating a low-swing engine lathe, Joe Zorich (left) and Chuck Doe, both nineteen, are typical of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308030/image-hand-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Drill press lineup, 1943 style. Both men and women man the machines which are turning… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307753/image-plant-person-planesFree Image from public domain license
DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Making a part for the new type of air raid siren he invented. Several years… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239802/photo-image-face-hand-personFree Image from public domain license
No chances are taken with the quality of wheel castings for the Army's new halftrac scout cars. This workman in an Ohio… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240064/photo-image-plant-person-artFree Image from public domain license
A track for an Army halftrac car nears completion as curing plates nuts are removed with an air pressure wrench on the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239929/photo-image-plant-person-artFree Image from public domain license
Manpower. Americans all. Being of a different racial strain from Hitler or Hirohito, Guy L. Miles wouldn't stand much chance… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307790/image-person-technology-factoryFree Image from public domain license
Production. Aircraft engines. Foreman F.I. Bowman shows Marietta Morgan how to operate this bomb-test machine used to test… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306779/image-plant-person-airplaneFree Image from public domain license
Production. Willow Run bomber plant. An African American worker at the giant Willow Run bomber plant installs screws in one… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239801/photo-image-face-plant-handFree Image from public domain license
African Americans speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. Herbert Smith, drill operator, is a member of a local labor… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12242056/photo-image-face-person-smokeFree Image from public domain license
Production. 45-caliberautomatic pistols. Anthony Freda drills the barrels of .45-caliber automatic pistols in the plant of a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307206/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Conversion. Jukebox plant. Pinch hitting for metal, wood is now used in production of file cabinets in wartime America.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12301968/image-plant-person-bookFree Image from public domain license
Louis and Ruth Cruse Shown Planting Fruit Trees Outside Their Home in White Cloud, Kansas, near Troy in Doniphan County in… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770630/photo-image-trees-woman-peopleFree Image from public domain license
Production. M-4 tanks. Arthur Hale, tool maker with the American Locomotive Company for forty years, operates a milling… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307611/image-person-technology-factoryFree Image from public domain license
Steam cleaning an Army halftrac scout car for final painting. One of the last touches a large Midwest plant gives the cars… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306550/image-steam-plant-personFree Image from public domain license
Officers with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, conduct non-intrusive inspections at the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8723834/photo-image-public-domain-personFree Image from public domain license
Conversion. Safety razor plant. In a New England plant manufacturing safety razors, honed head blade clips for razors.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307072/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
New type of boxcar petroleum carrier which the Office of Defense Transportation hopes may soon be helping to solve the oil… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12303684/image-person-technology-woodenFree Image from public domain license
A halftrac scout car gets a touch-up job on the chassis assembly line of an Ohio truck plant. A durable finish protects the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306735/image-plant-person-hospitalFree Image from public domain license
Production. Tin smelting. Pure tin in the form of "bars" is removed from the molds at a Southern smelter. The bars had… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307884/image-person-wood-womanFree Image from public domain license
Women in industry. Gas mask production. She used to wrap bread in a bakery, before Pearl Harbor, but today twenty-one-year… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307756/image-face-hand-personFree Image from public domain license
A coat of paint makes anything look better. But the purpose of spraying the undercarriages of the Army's halftrac scout cars… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239744/photo-image-person-technology-factoryFree Image from public domain license
Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly employed in a vacuum cleaner plant, these young women are now making gas… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302175/image-plant-hand-personFree Image from public domain license
Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Scarlet fingernails give emphasis to the important work that feminine fingers are… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307762/image-face-plant-personFree Image from public domain license
A halftrac scout car must show a clean bill of health before the manufacturer turns it over to the Army. Endless inspections… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306578/image-person-technology-womanFree Image from public domain license
Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Wooden motor torpedo boats for the Navy are built of prefabricated parts and… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307862/image-person-wooden-factoryFree Image from public domain license
Conversion. Safety razor plant. From razor blades to V-blocks in few weeks! That's the story of Estelle Wilson, one of a New… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307081/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
De Land pool. La Roe shop. Two grandmothers who are keeping up the production schedule of the La Roe's family shop at… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307051/image-hand-person-factoryFree Image from public domain license
Production. 45-caliberautomatic pistols. Anna Healey turns and drills butt millings on the ejector of .45-caliber automatic… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307131/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Chrysler tank arsenal. Installing the power plant is a ticklish operation. These workers are lowering a 400 horsepower… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302126/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Every one of the 10,000 workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit must know his job… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308229/image-person-factory-manFree Image from public domain license
Production. Copper. Industrial railroad and plant of a copper smelter of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12303839/image-plant-smoke-roadFree Image from public domain license
Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This worker is at the controls of an extruding machine, a powerful piece of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302008/image-person-technology-factoryFree Image from public domain license
Nelson congratulates a blind worker. For her work in training blind persons for war industries, Miss Helen Hurst, founder of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239813/photo-image-dog-face-personsFree Image from public domain license
Naval air base. Corpus Christi, Texas. Now an expert mechanic, Mary Josephine Farley shows a National Youth Administration… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239871/photo-image-face-person-artFree Image from public domain license
Manpower, junior size. Proud young fighters in Uncle Sam's junior army visit a scrap yard in Roanoke, Virginia to see for… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239996/photo-image-people-factory-childrenFree Image from public domain license
Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker is watching for signals from a colleague as he rolls cold steel plate to a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306827/image-face-plant-personFree Image from public domain license
Halftrac scout cars. When the American assembly line gets down to business, things gets done and done well. The assembling… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306543/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Science and research. Studies of non-coking coals. Research workers at the Golden, Colorado field station of the U.S. Bureau… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12303374/image-person-golden-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Production. 45-caliber pistols. John Ignacek pierces trigger hole guards on .45-caliber automatic pistols in the plant of a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307007/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Cope made for Antonio Barberini (1607-1671), Grand Prior of Rome in the Order of Saint John and the Knights of Malta https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12837155/photo-image-art-pattern-crossFree Image from public domain license
Another sturdy track for an Army halftrac car will soon be ready for use. On the trimming rack of the Ohio tire plant in… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307025/image-face-plant-personFree Image from public domain license
Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This is the inlet end of a conveyor furnace. The rolls of strip brass and copper… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306878/image-plants-person-airplaneFree Image from public domain license
Training. Ramp boats. The Marines prepare to set a truck ashore from a fifty-foot ramp boat at a Navy school conducted by… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307001/image-person-sky-beachFree Image from public domain license
Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Final "Valiant" basic trainer assembly line at Vultee's Downey, California… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240700/photo-image-plant-person-airplaneFree Image from public domain license
Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Coils of copper water tube. Large quantities of copper tube are needed by our Army… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12107326/image-background-art-patternFree Image from public domain license
Production. Tin smelting. Emptying bags of raw tin ore from South America on a conveyor which feeds the crusher of a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302243/image-plant-person-womanFree Image from public domain license
War housing needs. Crowds of homeseekers wait in line for housing information in every "boom town" war housing center. Like… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308612/image-people-boom-womanFree Image from public domain license
New Tidal Basin bridge under construction in Washington, D.C. The famous cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin in… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308630/image-person-architecture-constructionFree Image from public domain license
Tennessee Valley Authority. Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant construction. A partly completed stator for one of the generator… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307665/image-plant-factory-waterFree Image from public domain license
Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306807/image-plant-person-fireFree Image from public domain license
Industrial salvage. Marine iron and steel scrap. Iron and steel scrap, left over from the repair and replacement of marine… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12301919/image-person-sky-factoryFree Image from public domain license
Women in industry. Tool production. Two of nearly 1,000 women who "keep 'em rolling" in a large Midwest drill and tool… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12301917/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
A huge and rapidly increasing supply of tracks for Army halftrac cars comes from one Ohio tire plant alone. Traveling chain… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239932/photo-image-plant-hand-personFree Image from public domain license
Meat cutter Marty Smith uses a band saw to cut T-bone steaks at Rustic Cuts in Council Bluffs, IA, on July 9, 2021. Original… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8708685/photo-image-public-domain-person-manFree Image from public domain license
Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. A million dollar baby, not in terms of money but in her value to Uncle Sam… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239840/photo-image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Production. C-47 transport planes. A long line of C-47 transport planes awaits the installation of wings at the Long Beach… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306481/image-plant-person-planesFree Image from public domain license
Manpower. Americans all. Born in Rumania, George Sackwar is doing what he can to shoot up the Axis - not with a gun but with… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307570/image-plant-person-factoryFree Image from public domain license
Women in war. Machine gun production operators. This modern "spinning wheel" would astound our grandmothers, and so would… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307783/image-person-art-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Salvage. Stacking chips in the game of war. Even better, if possible, than the individual citizen, American industry has… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306992/image-person-art-factoryFree Image from public domain license
Production. Aircraft engines. She used to be a librarian, now she inspects aircraft parts. Prior to Alma Jean Vincent's… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307024/image-plant-person-artFree Image from public domain license
George III sterling silver coffee pot, National Museum of African American History and Culture https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8849871/george-iii-sterling-silver-coffee-potFree Image from public domain license
War workers' nursery. Knowing her five-year-old will be well cared for while she works in war industry, Mrs. J.E. Schroeder… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308453/image-face-hand-personFree Image from public domain license
Women in war. Summer canning workers. Why tin cans should be saved. To assure adequate civilian supply of canned produce in… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306979/image-plants-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Bantam, Connecticut. Sheet metal foreman at the Warren McArthur plant is John Scott, who formerly worked in Bridgeport at… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307076/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Women in industry. Gas mask production. Don't let their youth and good looks deceive you, these two young workers are… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302230/image-face-plant-handFree Image from public domain license
De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Instructor Gil Angell shows Ernest Williams, high school student, how to install… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307032/image-person-beach-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. Applying automobile production methods to machining of 40 mm. anti… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307760/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain license
Women in industry. Tool production. Trained to catch the tiniest defect in the smallest drill, this attractive, young… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302173/image-face-paper-plantFree Image from public domain license
Conversion. Floor waxer plant. This drill press and all other machines of a small Eastern floor waxer company had to be… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12301992/image-frame-plant-personFree Image from public domain license
Conversion. Auto body plant. This worker is cleaning wing parts with solvent, a necessary process prior to painting.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240167/photo-image-face-plant-personFree Image from public domain license
Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Brass or copper, as it comes from the rolls, is usually in strips too long for… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240164/photo-image-person-technology-factoryFree Image from public domain license