Conversion. Copper and brass processing. The inside of a large brass and copper tube mill. Copper tubes are made in many… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12107331/image-person-art-vintageFree Image from public domain licenseDe 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 licenseHalftrac scout cars. Perfectly balanced sets of connecting rods mean better engine performance for the Army's new halftrac… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240532/photo-image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. Before completion of the fourth and final welding operation in… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240535/photo-image-person-technology-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Electric shaver plant. Normal peacetime work of this New England plant is the production of electric dry… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307061/image-face-plant-personFree Image from public domain licenseShipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. These flat cars loaded with prefabricated and assembled sections for ships under construction… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306861/image-plant-sky-architectureFree Image from public domain licenseManpower. Handicapped workers. With both arms and legs crippled by infantile paralysis, pretty Mary Elizabeth Conway, twenty… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307064/image-face-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseWomen in industry. Gas mask production. The finished gas mask face pieces in the foreground were just flaps of rubber… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12301925/image-face-plant-handsFree Image from public domain licenseThe art of mixing and milling requires skillful judgement and deftness of hand. Part of the secret of these tires lies in… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12301611/image-hand-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. Before completion of the fourth and final welding operation in… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307077/image-person-airplane-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseManpower. Americans all. His war job gives Michael Kassalo an extra good appetite. Operating a vertical turret lathe in a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307578/image-plant-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseSalvage. School children get in the scrap. The school children of America were officially organized for a nationwide salvage… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307095/image-person-woman-childrenFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to instruments of death. Edward Groe, Nowegian-born employee… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307755/image-hand-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseManpower. Handicapped workers. With no previous industrial experience, Thelma Lilly learned to operate this burring machine… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306755/image-face-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseHalftrac scout cars. It won't be long before this capable-looking engine becomes the power plant of a halftrac scout car.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302120/image-plant-person-spaceFree Image from public domain licenseTo save time in checking threads on a twenty-millimeter shell booster, a plant superintendant built this machine. It makes… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12107322/image-plant-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseScience and research. Studies of non-coking coals. V.F. Parry, supervising engineer of the Golden, Colorado field station of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307397/image-person-golden-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Every visitor is "frisked" for weapons or other forbidden articles as he enters the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307882/image-plant-hand-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseManpower. Americans all. One word from Bernard T. McGlore, and you know that his is a heritage of freedom. That rich… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307759/image-face-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Copper and brass processing. This sample of brass strip is being tested on a Rockwell Hardness Testing Machine.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240172/photo-image-hand-person-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseHealth measures for low home temperatures. The American male, accustomed to heavy clothing indoors and out, probably won't… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239995/photo-image-face-flower-plantFree Image from public domain licenseSafe clothes for women war workers. Her hair tucked away under a safety cap, war worker Eunice Kimball stands beside… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308401/image-face-plant-personFree Image from public domain licenseWar workers' nursery. Playing waitress is an envied job at the Bella Vista Nursery School in Oakland, California, where a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308436/image-hand-person-tomatoFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. 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 licenseManpower. Handicapped workers. A victim of infantile paralysis, Robert H. Drake, twenty-six, does a job any man would be… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307563/image-face-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseBig U.S. naval base in Ulster built by American and British workers. Londonderry is now America's premier naval base in… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307314/image-person-hospital-waterFree Image from public domain licenseBantam, Connecticut. Demetress Welch, veteran of the Warren McArthur upholstery shop suffered a pair of broken ankles in a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306801/image-person-brick-doorFree Image from public domain licenseTank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, twenty-eight ton steel giants being turned out at the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308249/image-person-factory-noteFree Image from public domain licenseSugar rationing. Three prominent ladies learn how to register for their sugar rationing books. Mrs. Henry Wallace, Mrs. Leon… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302489/image-people-books-womanFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. Removing of non-shatter-chemical solution tank at a rubber… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239731/photo-image-hand-person-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Aircraft engines. A skilled mechanic and determined war worker, Zed W. Robinson, proves that skin pigment bears… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307728/image-plant-person-airplaneFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). An African American carpenter at a Southern shipyard runs a heavy plank through a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240401/photo-image-face-person-musicFree Image from public domain licenseOld gates turned in for scrap. Inspecting the gates of the old McLean Mansion, now government property, which are to be torn… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302481/image-face-people-womanFree Image from public domain licenseLast grain of powder is dumped into the mill hopper as another hatch is completely filled. Next batch is in the foreground… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12301375/image-person-art-hospitalFree Image from public domain licenseNaval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. A top-notch mechanic, Mary Josephine Farley expertly rebuilds airplane engines.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307230/image-person-airplane-crossFree Image from public domain licenseDehydrated food luncheon at Senate. Chef Denissen hands out plates filled with dehydrated foods to be served in the dining… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306671/image-hands-person-phoneFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Copper and brass processing. This is a stock of semi-finished strip copper in rolls. This metal will be rolled… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12107324/image-person-art-vintageFree Image from public domain licenseManpower. Americans all. Rejoicing in the opportunity to help free his native Greece and keep the Nazis from America's… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12301858/image-plant-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseWar workers' nursery. His milk and graham crackers, part of the Bella Vista Nursery School's afternoon schedule, do not seem… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308448/image-face-plant-handFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Toy factory. With this same electric screwdriver, Stephanie Cewe used to work on the manufacture of toy trains.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12107625/image-person-art-vintageFree Image from public domain licenseAnother 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 licenseHalftrac scout cars. Putting precision-made pistons assemblies into precision-made cylinders is a job that fits this former… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240178/photo-image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseSubstitute materials. Timber connectors. Use of wood in the construction of Army chapels is shown here, one of 570 similar… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307677/image-person-wood-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseManpower. Americans all. His war job gives Michael Kassalo an extra good appetite. Operating a vertical turret lathe in a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307765/image-face-plant-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseJefferson Memorial. Within the Jefferson Memorial rotunda in Washington, D.C., stands this nineteen-foot statue of America's… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12242060/photo-image-person-art-manFree Image from public domain licensePower and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Switchyard of the TVA's Chickamauga Dam, located… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307836/image-pattern-technology-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseDante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. Mr. Dante looks on as Mrs. Hazel Wheeler places screws into electric terminals.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302128/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseManpower. 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 licenseScience and research. Mineral prospecting. Micro-fossils can play an important role in locating the proper spot to drill an… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307375/image-people-golden-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Lead. An Akins type classifier in a lead concentrator near Creede, Colorado where old mines have been reopened.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302805/image-person-pattern-airplaneFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. Workers in a former automobile plant machining the firing end of a 40… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307036/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A propeller shaft of a Pratt and Whitney airplane engine is carefully… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307903/image-face-plant-personFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Careful inspections between honings assure compliance with rigid standards… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306997/image-hand-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseManpower. Handicapped workers. Auburn-haired, twenty-one-year-old, Belva Fletcher, left, handicapped by progressive… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307780/image-hand-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseMrs. Hazel Wheeler places screws into electric terminals. Mrs. Wheeler who lives in Bantam with her husband, a machinist at… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239368/photo-image-face-plant-personFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Copper and brass processing. Analyzing the amount of copper and lead in the brasses. In this test the laboratory… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306891/image-hand-person-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Toy factory. From toy trains to parachute flare casings is the work history of Stephanie Cewe, whose skill with… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239698/photo-image-face-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseWomen in war. Machine gun production operators. This capable young woman is making an important contribution to America's… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308038/image-face-plant-handFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Copper and brass processing. Many parts and products used by the Army and the Navy must stand up under severe… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306864/image-person-technology-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseBantam, Connecticut. One of the busiest sections of the Warren McArthur plant is the toolroom, with lathes turning for… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306788/image-paper-plant-personFree Image from public domain licenseA poster comes to life. Long awaited by Woolslayer, he celebrated the visit of the soldier and sailor with a party at his… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302144/image-face-person-living-roomFree Image from public domain licenseWomen in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Youthful Paderewskis, take note! Her finger made superbly flexible by years of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307752/image-face-plant-handFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Copper and brass processing. Packing coils of refrigeration tubing in paper containers. Because it is important… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12107338/image-paper-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. Here, in a former automobile plant, 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrels… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306612/image-plant-person-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseAfrican 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 licenseAfrican Americans speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. Earl Tulloss is a skilled operator of a dragline capable of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12304067/image-face-steam-plantFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. 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 licenseConversion. 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 licenseShipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. These flatcars loaded with prefabricated and assembled sections for ships under construction… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307063/image-plant-person-crossFree Image from public domain licenseDe Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe, commander-in-chief of the La Roe family war production army at… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307030/image-face-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Auto body plant. This worker is dipping wing section of an airplane in bath, a necessary process prior to… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307052/image-plant-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseConservation of durable goods. Is it the news or is it indigestion? Whatever it is, this gentleman's mood is playing havoc… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306541/image-face-people-technologyFree Image from public domain licensePower for the Army! The engine for an halftrac scout car is raised by electric hoist to the assembly floor of Midwest truck… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306596/image-plant-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Aircraft engines. Woman's place is on the inspection line in this Midwest aircraft plant where increasing… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306839/image-face-plant-handFree Image from public domain licenseWomen 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 licenseConversion. Copper and brass processing. The inside of a large brass and copper tube mill. Copper tubes are made in many… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12107317/image-art-vintage-airplanesFree Image from public domain licensePresident Roosevelt and President Vargas. President Getulio Vargas of Brazil confers with President Roosevelt at a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12303406/image-face-flower-plantFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Copper and brass processing. Drawing seamless copper tube. Rough cast tubes tapered at one end to fit through a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306751/image-person-factory-manFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Toy factory. The hands of Lucille Ciecko, worker in a New England plant, tells the story of conversion in its… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307079/image-plant-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseNaval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Navy planes must be mechanically perfect. Lloyd H. Brooknole (left), an experience… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239854/photo-image-face-hand-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseWomen in industry. Flare gun production. "What's new about women working in war industries?" asks Mrs. Annette Caines of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307746/image-plant-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseDehydrated food luncheon at Senate. Senators Johnson of Colorado, O'Mahoney of Wyoming, and Chavez of [New Mexico] sampled… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306683/image-plant-people-womanFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. 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 licenseProduction. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are trimmed and cleaned before removal from the molds in which they were formed… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307891/image-plant-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseShipbuilding. "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 licenseHalftrac scout cars. When the American assembly line gets down to business, things gets done and done well. The assembling… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306615/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseNurse training. Care of infants is included in all nurses training. This youngster is about to get an eye irrigation. Note… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240217/photo-image-face-person-phoneFree Image from public domain licenseThis Norton cutter-grinder which had been specially adapted to grind cams on the motor shaft for the electric dry shaver… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307087/image-plant-person-spaceFree Image from public domain licenseBaseball players in war production. Lunch hour at California Ship Building Corporation finds two of baseball's major… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308611/image-face-person-baseballFree Image from public domain licenseHalftrac scout cars. A crankshaft that earns a job for itself in one of the Army's new halftrac scout cars is a good… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306588/image-person-factory-architectureFree Image from public domain licenseShipbuilding. "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 licenseProduction. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A gear for a Pratt and Whitney engine is tested for hardness on a Rockwell… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308170/image-face-plant-handFree Image from public domain licenseThe Army's new halftrac scout cars are protected by durable finishes. The man working on these bogy assemblies is preparing… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240062/photo-image-people-factory-manFree Image from public domain licenseA 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 licenseShipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Between the ways of this large Eastern shipyard run tracks for flat cars carrying materials… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12107340/image-person-art-vintageFree Image from public domain licenseNo 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 licenseManpower. 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/12308042/image-plant-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. 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 licenseWomen in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly a beauty shop operator, blonde Marjorie Karwaske finds that the dear dead… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307801/image-plant-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Aircraft engines. A skilled mechanic and determined war worker, Zed W. Robinson, proves that skin pigment bears… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239833/photo-image-face-plant-handFree Image from public domain license