Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A completed Pratt and Whitney airplane motor ready for installation in a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240016/photo-image-plant-people-planeFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Tungsten. A waste pile near a tungsten recovery plant close to Kingman, Arizona. The Boriana mine and plant at… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12303158/image-plant-sky-treeFree Image from public domain licenseIt won't be long before this track will be helping an Army halftrac car negotiate rough country in a hurry. Final trimming… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307065/image-plant-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseAluminum casting. The heads of these heat-treated pistons must be spotted prior to Brinnell hardness testing. Young women… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307070/image-person-art-tapeFree Image from public domain licenseStreaking into the mixture, and forming the marbleized pattern, the powdered components at first can be detected in the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308251/image-person-pattern-hospitalFree Image from public domain licenseHe's preparing rollers for a bogy assembly for a halftrac scout car produced, with many more like it, by a Midwest truck… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302259/image-face-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseWomen 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 licenseConversion. Electric shaver plant. This New England plant normally produces electric dry shavers. On this drill press the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12301991/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. In a former automobile plant every imperfect gun barrel is immediately… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239812/photo-image-plant-person-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseSteam 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 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. Electric shaver plant. This New England plant, whose normal product is electric dry shavers, has now converted… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306830/image-plant-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseTraining. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. This small cabin plane is being completely overhauled by… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306982/image-person-plane-fabricFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. B-17 heavy bomber. A complete fuselage section for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber ready to be hoisted from… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12301902/image-plant-person-spaceFree Image from public domain licenseWomen in war. Supercharger plant workers. Plant foremen point to 20-year-old Annie Tabor as one of their best lathe… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239872/photo-image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseMrs. Sophie Deneby of Honolulu is shown sending a pattern while John Popanich, apprentice moulder, and Frank Chiaco, pattern… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239878/photo-image-person-art-patternFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. 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 licenseConversion. Copper and brass processing. Large rolls of sheet brass and copper ready for the slitting machine, where the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240533/photo-image-person-factory-manFree Image from public domain licenseWomen in industry. Tool production. A job which was formerly done by hand (and by men) is done in this large Midwest drill… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306536/image-plant-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseWomen in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Employer resistance to the hiring of women workers in war industries is rapidly… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307754/image-heart-plant-handFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Willow Run bomber plant. Advanced assembly includes riveting and drilling the nose of the bomber made in the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307580/image-plant-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Lead. A small Symons cone crusher for crushing lead ore in a mill near Creede, Colorade where old lead mines… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12303745/image-person-art-woodFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. Preliminary inspection of "flame arresters" in a former automobile… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239817/photo-image-face-plant-personFree Image from public domain licenseNaval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Now an expert mechanic, Mary Josephine Farley shows an National Youth Administration… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306436/image-face-people-artFree Image from public domain licenseWomen 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 licenseConversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. To ensure maximum efficiency, every 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrel… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306811/image-plant-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseManpower. Americans all. Like most of the young workers in a huge Midwest medium-tank plant, Herman Silldorf is an American… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307588/image-face-plant-personFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. A new B-24E (Liberator) bomber just returned from a successful trial… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307343/image-plant-person-skyFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Auto body plant. He used to be an automobile worker, but he's one of Uncle Sam's war workers these days, with… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240159/photo-image-face-plant-handFree Image from public domain licenseChrysler tank arsenal. Thousands of rivets are used in the production of one of the huge thirty-eight ton M-3 tanks.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308236/image-person-airplane-womanFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. After the circumferential straps are welded to the cylindrical… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239704/photo-image-person-factory-manFree 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 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 licenseConversion. 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 licenseWartime food demonstration. A new and important home front activity, the wartime food demonstration is rapidly becoming a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302923/image-person-woman-hospitalFree 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 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 licenseHigh school Victory Corps. Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, California, teaches its students trades which fit them to… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240193/photo-image-person-art-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseWomen 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 licenseConversion. Copper and brass processing. Weighing brass scrap. The war program calls for the use of such vast amounts of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306771/image-person-technology-hospitalFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Airplane propellers. Two-way spider forgings for Hamilton airplane propellers in the rough store department of a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302142/image-background-plant-patternFree Image from public domain licenseAluminum paint production. Women work alongside of men in this Midwest aluminum factory now converted to production of war… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239861/photo-image-person-woman-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. 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 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 licenseManpower, junior size. Saturday's a holiday for most of the nation's small-fries, but to these youngsters of Roanoke… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308131/image-face-plant-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. B-17 heavy bomber. A skilled team of men and women workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle complete assembly and… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306731/image-plant-people-womenFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From piano keys to parts for trainer planes. Lorraine Avezzano, pictured at work in a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308048/image-face-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Jukebox plant. It's all for fun now, but his technical skill in operating this multiple drill press will soon be… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12240181/photo-image-plant-person-spaceFree Image from public domain licenseBuilding a new army camp at top speed. Now camps are being built with great rapidity all over the country to house not only… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12241093/photo-image-plant-person-treeFree Image from public domain licenseTransportation. Car pooling at Glenn Martin. Car pooling helps solve the labor transportation problem of a big aircraft… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306821/image-face-plant-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Willow Run bomber plant. They're learning a fourth "R" at this school, and one that's highly important to the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307565/image-plant-person-hospitalFree Image from public domain licenseWomen in war. Supercharger plant workers. A former bank clerk and a college graduate who majored in physics, find war jobs… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239764/photo-image-plant-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseNurse training. An important phase of every nurse's training is assisting at operations. In this emergency tracheotomy, the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239847/photo-image-hand-person-hospitalFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Copper and brass processing. This picture shows brass rod coming from the extrusion machine. Red hot brass… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306831/image-person-woman-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseWomen 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 licenseNurse training. A student nurse (right) assists the doctor with a lumbar puncture, an important diagnostic procedure for… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12303677/image-person-hospital-doctorFree Image from public domain licenseWar workers' nursery. Finger painting is a healthy outlet for nursery school youngsters. With oilcloth aprons to protect… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308610/image-hand-person-woodFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Fitting a valve to serve one of the gas compressors in… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239703/photo-image-face-plant-personFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Halftrac armoured cars. Partly finished halftrac scout cars travel along a moving assembly line in a plant… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12303437/image-plant-person-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Halftrac armoured cars. Partly finished halftrac scout cars travel along a moving assembly line in a plant… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307637/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseTracks for Army halftrac cars must undergo a careful inspection and be approved before they can be released from the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239922/photo-image-face-plant-personFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Halftrac armoured cars. Partly finished halftrac scout cars travel along a moving assembly line in a plant… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12303429/image-plant-person-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseAluminum casting. Duds, rejected for imperfections, are thrown back into the furnaces for recasting. Location: a large… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307092/image-person-art-airplaneFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Pistons, complete with rings, are lined up for assembly in Pratt and Whitney… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307134/image-plant-planes-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. B-17 heavy bomber. A crew of fast, expert workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle rivet a fuselage section for a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306560/image-plant-person-spaceFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. 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 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 licenseProduction. 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 licenseNurse training. Given an hour's rest between rounds, Susan Petty, student nurse, is visited by her fellow nurses in her… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12303366/image-person-woman-hospitalFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Auto body plant. He used to be an automobile worker, but he's one of Uncle Sam's war workers these days, with… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307047/image-plant-person-airplaneFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Willow Run bomber plant. Spot welding parts for the nacelle of an aircraft engine. These women work in the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306796/image-plant-person-womenFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Steel ramp boats, fifty feet long, powered by twin diesel engines, are being made… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12301944/image-person-tree-houseFree Image from public domain licenseNurse training. Student nurses, like Susan Petty of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, are rendering their country a great service by… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239971/photo-image-person-hospital-familyFree Image from public domain licenseWomen in essential services. Women railroad workers take over the cars and maintenance of freight and passenger trains in… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302798/image-person-sky-smokeFree Image from public domain licenseShipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Nearly ready to be hoisted into place on the deck of a new ship under construction at a large… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306873/image-person-airplane-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Willow Run bomber plant. Inspection of more than a thousand separate tubing pieces composing the fuel… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12303592/image-plant-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseFuel oil conservation. Logs snapping in the fireplace mean fuel conservation as well as cozy evenings at home. On crisp days… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307210/image-plant-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseConversion. Toy factory. Lucille Ciecko is one of the thousands of workers turning their skill today to the production of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306884/image-person-woman-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Airplane propellers. Three-way spider forgings for the hydraulic mechanism that adjust propeller blade pitch… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12302131/image-plant-airplane-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Copper (refining). Yard scene at a large copper refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12303140/image-plant-person-skyFree 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 licenseProduction. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Stud bolts are installed on power cases for Pratt and Whitney airplane… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307127/image-plant-person-planeFree 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 licenseProduction. 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 licenseProduction. B-17F heavy bomber. Tubing bent to specified shapes and ready for installation in B-17F (Flying Fortress)… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12303407/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 licenseConversion. 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 licenseSubcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Executives of the Howe Machinery Company, Passaic, New Jersey, discuss details… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306562/image-person-technology-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseJapanese enlistment. Official announcement recently of formation of a combat regiment to be made up of 1,500 Americans of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306570/image-people-woman-hospitalFree Image from public domain licenseShipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. These are rolled plates for the shaft tunnel of one of Uncle Sam's new "Liberty Ships," under… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307062/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseA bogy assembly for an Army halftrac scout car takes shape on the production line of an Ohio truck plant. When it's… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306537/image-plant-person-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. 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 licenseProduction. 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 licenseProduction. Aircraft engines. African American women with no previous industrial experience are reconditioning used spark… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306746/image-plant-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseFuel oil conservation. An experienced serviceman checks the efficiency of the family heating plant. This man measures the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12307921/image-face-plant-handFree 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 licenseProduction. Aircraft engines. Hundreds of gears pass through the expert hands of Dorothy Miller and Sylvia Dreiser during… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12306760/image-plant-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseDe Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These carefree high school students are learning the serious business of war… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12239446/photo-image-hand-people-airplaneFree Image from public domain licenseProduction. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Frames for motor torpedo boats under construction at a large Southern shipyard.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/12308175/image-frames-person-woodenFree Image from public domain licenseSalvage. 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