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Subcontracting aircraft parts. Here is the "dope room" at a huge Ohio plant. The fabric covering control surfaces for military aircraft is here doped, or covered with protective paints. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

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Subcontracting aircraft parts. Here is one of the airplane sub-assembly production lines at an Ohio plant, which was a former airship dock. These are control surfaces for military aircraft, being assembled here for shipment to plane plants. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. A complicated system of storing parts for airplane sub-assembly assures workers at an Ohio plant that they will not be held up for parts. Here is a portion of the huge storeroom, with a worker piling small sections where they will be available at a moment's notice. Constant inventory is kept. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. A complicated system of storing parts for airplane sub-assembly assures workers at an Ohio plant that they will not be held up for parts. Here is a portion of the huge storeroom, with a worker piling small sections where they will be available at a moment's notice. Constant inventory is kept. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. This riveter is applying the finishing touches to highly-polished surface of a portion of aircraft sub-assembly at an Ohio plant. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Many strange-looking tools are required to get into the difficult places where rivets must be placed in the modern military airplane. Workers are working on an airplane sub-assembly part in an Ohio plant. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Here is the "dope room" at a huge Ohio plant. The fabric covering control surfaces for military aircraft is here doped, or covered with protective paints. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 1260.

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ohio summit county akron safety film negatives lot 1984 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo aircraft parts ohio plant aircraft dope room control surfaces office of war information farm security administration united states history industrial history factory workers library of congress
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01/01/1941
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ohio summit county akron safety film negatives lot 1984 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo aircraft parts ohio plant aircraft dope room control surfaces office of war information farm security administration united states history industrial history factory workers library of congress