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Cutting with acetylene flame, using masks & blue glass to protect the eyes

Cutting with acetylene flame, using masks & blue glass to protect the ...

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Acetylene light in Cajun farm home near Crowley, Louisiana. Ignition of acetylene gas is accomplished by flints which are integral in the fixture

Acetylene light in Cajun farm home near Crowley, Louisiana. Ignition o...

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Acetylene welding, a necessary part of oil field activities, Seminole, Oklahoma

Acetylene welding, a necessary part of oil field activities, Seminole,...

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A man is welding a piece of metal, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A man is welding a piece of metal, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograp...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Skilled workers with blazing acetylene torches perform many exacting individual welding jobs in the production of cabs for Army trucks. Here a gas welder is working on what is known as the "A" post of an army truck cab

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Skilled workers with blazing acetylene...

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Shenandoah Valley. Carl Wilbarger going to work in an acetylene welding outfit

Shenandoah Valley. Carl Wilbarger going to work in an acetylene weldin...

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Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...

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Civilian protection. Members of the rescue parties like this worker must be prepared to reach victims of bomb raids and fallen debris and give them emergency first aid treatment. It is not always possible to remove debris by hand, therefore, rescue workers' trucks carry equipment to enable the rescue squad to shore up masonry, cut through steel or stone, shut off broken mains or tunnel through conglomerate heaps of debris. The worker here shown is using an acetylene torch to cut away a stubborn resisting piece of expanded steel

Civilian protection. Members of the rescue parties like this worker mu...

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Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with whatever difficulties they may encounter, these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen workers are climbling up a fire ladder to the roof of a building struck by bombs. Fartherest up the ladder is a worker equipped with an "Indian" fire pump, valuable in fighting incendiary bombs. The man below him is carrying a two-way portable radio. Next is a volunteer worker with a portable acetylene torch, used for cutting through metal to effect entrances or to extricate victims pinned under fallen metal. The man just starting up the ladder is carrying a roof rope, and all are equipped with gas masks

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with whatever difficulties...

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Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...

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Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...

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Civilian defense. Here are some of the tools which will speed civilian defense work in New York. In the foreground is an outlet junction box, which distributes electric current from an Emergency Service truck over a wide area. Then there are floodlights, all sorts of firefighting tools and equipment to combat glassing of civilians. Power drills and saws, ten ton truck jacks, an acetylene burning outfit and every portable field telephones are included in their equipment, all of which is carried in the Emergency Service truck in the background

Civilian defense. Here are some of the tools which will speed civilian...

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Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...

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Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...

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Civilian defense. Here are some of the tools which will speed civilian defense work in New York. In the foreground is an outlet junction box, which distributes electric current from an Emergency Service truck over a wide area. Then there are floodlights, all sorts of firefighting tools and equipment to combat glassing of civilians. Power drills and saws, ten ton truck jacks, an acetylene burning outfit and every portable field telephones are included in their equipment, all of which is carried in the Emergency Service truck in the background

Civilian defense. Here are some of the tools which will speed civilian...

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Acetylene tanks, Shasta Dam. Shasta County, California

Acetylene tanks, Shasta Dam. Shasta County, California

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Right through the metal cute this acetylene torch, directed by the skilled hands of one of the thousands of workers in the yard. This plate will be taken by an overhead crane to the building ways, where it will become a part of one of the Navy's new battlecraft

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Right through the metal cute this ac...

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Using acetylene torch to remove tops of eggs under completely sterile conditions. These eggs have been innoculated with yellow fever vaccine virus. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Using acetylene torch to remove tops of eggs under completely sterile ...

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High school Victory Corps. Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, California, teaches its students trades which fit them to help in the war program. This Negro boy is learning the use of an acetylene torch

High school Victory Corps. Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, Calif...

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Herbert Rudolph James, machinist, Shell Finish Department, National Tube Company, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a Certificate of Individual Production Merit. Mr. James is by profession a musician--organist and conductor. At his suggestion a mechanism was incorporated into the torch whereby the oxygen and acetylene mixtures could be varied to create the desired flame

Herbert Rudolph James, machinist, Shell Finish Department, National Tu...

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Denver, Colorado. Twenty-four hours a day the sparks from acetylene torches of steel workers in eight Denver fabricating plants are flying thick and fast that the U.S. Navy may carry the battle to the enemy in all parts of the world. Here in secluded Denver, the world's largest city not on a navigable waterway, this war production worker, who has never seen a battleship or an ocean, fashions the steel hull parts which are being assembled at Mare Island Navy Yard--1,200 miles from where he and his fellow wokers are on the job to help "keep 'em sailling."

Denver, Colorado. Twenty-four hours a day the sparks from acetylene to...

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Manpower, junior size. Proud young fighters in Uncle Sam's junior army visit a scrap yard in Roanoke, Virginia to see for themselves what happens to the scrap they collect for our war industries. One of the workers explains to the children how the acetylene torch he holds cuts heavy metal into the shapes required for melting by the steel mills

Manpower, junior size. Proud young fighters in Uncle Sam's junior army...

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Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. The ability to "saw" metal with flame is a skill which has many important applications in the war effort. This young Negro is receiving expert instruction in the art of cutting steel with an acetylene torch, just one phase of the training given at a WPA vocational training school in the District of Columbia

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. The ab...

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Production. Naval gun mounts. Rough-cutting a steel plate for naval gun mounts. The acetylene flame-cutting methods of a large Midwest plant are a substantial help in keeping production at a high level. Westinghouse, Louisville

Production. Naval gun mounts. Rough-cutting a steel plate for naval gu...

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Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. Acetylene welder on a new pipeline at Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

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Using acetylene torch to take tops off eggs under completely sterile conditions. These eggs have been innoculated with yellow fever vaccine virus. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Using acetylene torch to take tops off eggs under completely sterile c...

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Denver, Colorado. This workman has gone "all out" to speed up the Navy's unique shipbuilding program here in this mile-high city--the world's largest city not on a navigable waterway. Even though he has never seen an ocean or a ship larger than the pleasure launch on Denver's city park lake, the steel worker behind this acetylene torch is no less a shipbuilder! He is one of the workers in the eight Denver fabricating firms turning out hull parts in a 56 million dollar which means more escort vessels for Uncle Sam's Navy--vessels made in Denver and assembled at Mare Island Navy Yard 1,300 miles away

Denver, Colorado. This workman has gone "all out" to speed up the Navy...

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Automobile salvage. Automobile bodies are usually cut into four pieces so they can be readily loaded into a press for baling. The acetylene torch separates the lightweight body from the heavyweight steel frame of the car. Note: the auto has already been burned to remove all wooden parts, upholstery, oil, grease and other unusable and inflammable material

Automobile salvage. Automobile bodies are usually cut into four pieces...

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Conversion. Automobile industry. An acetylene torch is rolled into place with a big job scheduled for it, the dismantling of auto production equipment in an automobile factory, so that conversion to war production can begin. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. An acetylene torch is rolled into pla...

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Women airport workers. Evelyn Spangler, eighteen-years-old, is just as proficient at acetylene torch welding as any of the men welders in the Pennsylvania Central shops, according to Johnny Shore, her instructor. Evelyn learned welding rudiments from her father in Christiansburg, Virginia, got more experienced at the vocational school at Manassas, Virginia, and then joined the repair crew at the Washington National Airport. Now no welding job is too difficult for her to tackle

Women airport workers. Evelyn Spangler, eighteen-years-old, is just as...

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Using acetylene torch to break up metal scrap before shipment from a wholesale junk yard

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Using acetyl...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Ben Stephens tramped six miles into De Land, Florida three times a week last fall to attend the city's vocational school, established to provide workers for the community war-production pool. He welds, runs an acetylene cutting machine, and doubles in brass on woodworking and the assembly line in the Babcock plant, prime contractors of the pool. He plans to put his sixty-five-year-old father on the job as his helper when he is fully trained. Stephens, forty-four and a veteran of the last war, was one of eighteen machinists uncovered by a manpower survey of the community

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Ben Stephens tramped six miles into D...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A women acetylene welder works side by side with a man worker on an airplane gas tank at the North American's California, plant. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A women acetylene welder wo...

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The interior of a shipbuilding plant, showing men working with acetylene torches

The interior of a shipbuilding plant, showing men working with acetyle...

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Harvesting embryos containing yellow fever vaccine virus. Tops of eggs are removed by means of acetylene torch under completely sterile conditions. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Harvesting embryos containing yellow fever vaccine virus. Tops of eggs...

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Buffalo, New York. In the finishing department of Republic Steel. Gladys Chase (left), former beautician, using an acetylene torch to burn defects from a twenty-foot steel billet which will later be shaped into a machine gun barrel. It takes six months to learn this process, which is called scarfing

Buffalo, New York. In the finishing department of Republic Steel. Glad...

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, White Phosphorous Filling Acetylene Building, 850 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 1300 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, White Phosphorous Filling Acetylene Building, ...

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Acetylene Compressor House, 700 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 1100 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Acetylene Compressor House, 700 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 1100 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Acetylene Compressor House, 700 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 1100 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Acetylene Compressor House, 700 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 1100 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Acetylene Compressor House, 700 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 1100 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Acetylene Compressor House, 700 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 1100 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Acetylene Compressor House, 700 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 1100 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Acetylene Generator Building, 1650 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 1050 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Acetylene Generator Building, 1650 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 1050 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Acetylene Scrubbing Building-Product Development Laboratory, 700 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 1030 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Acetylene Scrubbing Building-Product Development Laboratory, 700 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 1030 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Acetylene Scrubbing Building-Product Development Laboratory, 700 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 1030 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Acetylene Gas Holder Building, 530 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 1020 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Acetylene Gas Holder Building, 530 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 1020 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

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