Barrage balloon manufacture. Cementing with a paint brush. This worker is a fabric cementer busy applying a rigging patch to the side of a new barrage balloon. Although the fabric looks mussed at the moment, it will be stretched tight and smooth when the new piece of fabric is added. Seams are triple protected against leaks, folded over, cement-welded, taped on both sides with overlapping rubber adhesive tape. Such seams will never pull apart under pressure. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

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Barrage balloon manufacture. Cementing with a paint brush. This worker is a fabric cementer busy applying a rigging patch to the side of a new barrage balloon. Although the fabric looks mussed at the moment, it will be stretched tight and smooth when the new piece of fabric is added. Seams are triple protected against leaks, folded over, cement-welded, taped on both sides with overlapping rubber adhesive tape. Such seams will never pull apart under pressure. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

description

Summary

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 1057.

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Date

01/01/1941
place

Location

akron
create

Source

Library of Congress
copyright

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Public Domain

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