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Boy on right Charlie Burton-9 Ozark Mill. This anaemic[sic], hollow chested, stoop shouldered under-sized and weight, said--"Been in mill 6 or 7 years. 12 years old. Haint grown none for 5 years. Doff at night and get 60 cents. Couldn't stand the sweepin' at the other mill, so mother moved us over here so I could get a job at doffin'." "Night work is 12 hours at a stretch." His sister (14 years old) has been spinning for 6 years. Makes 50 cents a day. (See small photo,--Maggie Burton). No. 315. Other boy--Frank Goodson--Been in mill 6 years. This mill was running nights at the time the photograph was taken. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.

Boy on right Charlie Burton-9 Ozark Mill. This anaemic[sic], hollow ch...

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Salvator Quattirto, 48 Union St., Lawrence, Massachusetts. One of the very young boys in spinning room, Ayer Mill. Has a steady job there now. Used to work in Wood Mill. Location: Lawrence, Massachusettsachusetts.

Salvator Quattirto, 48 Union St., Lawrence, Massachusetts. One of the ...

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4 P.M. John Sachatello, a barber with a steady job helping family make flowers, 302 Mott St. Making "bluettes" at $2.00 a gross. Makes $12.00 to $13.00 a week when all work. Mary 5 yrs. old. Tommy 7 yrs. old. Location: New York, New York (State)

4 P.M. John Sachatello, a barber with a steady job helping family make...

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Salvator Guattirto [i.e., Quattirto?], 48 Union St., one of the very young boys in the spinning room of the Ayer Mill. Has steady job there now. Used to work in the Wood Mill. Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Salvator Guattirto [i.e., Quattirto?], 48 Union St., one of the very y...

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Dependent (able-bodied) Parents. Fries, Virginia Family of Albert Senter. He said, "I don't work steady. Have a garden here." Eleven year old Mandy has learned to "spin" by "helping." She said, "They say I'm too little to work steady." Father added, "I guess she'll get in all right in a little while. They've been extra careful, lately, 'cause the inspector's been around, but it'll be easier now for her to get in." The three girls work and Mandy helps, with one eye on a steady job. Location: Fries, Virginia.

Dependent (able-bodied) Parents. Fries, Virginia Family of Albert Sent...

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Somerville Home Work. Annie Capodana, 9 years old. Lives at 9 Ward Street. Teresa Siuserella, 10 years old, 52 [?] Medford Street. At their job. See Home Work report. Location: Somerville, Massachusetts.

Somerville Home Work. Annie Capodana, 9 years old. Lives at 9 Ward Str...

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Dangerous work. Charlie McBride (said twelve years old). This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller & Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of the chute which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs onto to [sic] other boy who saws them on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above dangers, but to the weather. No roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." (fifty cents) Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found in Beaumont that employed boys - likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride (said twelve years old). This twelve y...

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Workers in Miller & Vidor Lumber Co. Dangerous work. Charlie McBride said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job. He takes the slabs out of the chute which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs on to the other boy who saws them on an inguarded [i.e., unguarded] circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above dangers, but to the weather - no roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day" (fifty cents). Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Workers in Miller & Vidor Lumber Co. Dangerous work. Charlie McBride s...

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John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he worked in the cotton mill at West, Tex., for five or six years. Said boys work in the Cuero mill under age. "They don't even bother to ask your age. Didn't ask mine. Easy 'nuff to git a job." The mills were not running on account of floods this week. I found only one other boy under age. - "Spider" Estes said he is fourteen years old and been working here, doffing, one year. Location: Cuero, Texas.

John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for e...

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Charley Humble. Said he was 10 years old. Has a regular job. Been helping his sister for some months in the Deep River Mills. Mother and sister work. Father deserted. Location: Randleman, North Carolina.

Charley Humble. Said he was 10 years old. Has a regular job. Been help...

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Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixteen year old boy has been newsboy and messenger for drug stores and telegraph companies. He was recently brought before the Judge of the Juvenile Court for incorrigibility at home. Is now out on parole, and was working again for drug company when he got a job carrying grips in the Union Depot. He is on the job from 6:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. (seventeen hours a day) for seven days in the week. His mother and the judge think he uses cocaine, and yet they let him put in these long hours every day. He told me "There ain't a house in 'The Acre' (Red Light) that I ain't been in. At the drug store, all my deliveries were down there." Says he makes from $15.00 to $18.00 a week. Eugene Dalton. Location: Fort Worth, Texas.

Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixtee...

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John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he worked in the cotton mill at West, Tex., for five or six years. Said boys work in the Cuero mill under age. "They don't even bother to ask your age. Didn't ask mine. Easy 'nuff to git a job." The mills were not running on account of floods this week. I found only one other boy under age, "Spider" Estes said he is fourteen years old and been working here, doffing one year. Location: Cuero, Texas.

John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for e...

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Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixteen year old boy has been newsboy and messenger for drug stores and telegraph companies. He was recently brought before the Judge of the Juvenile Court for incorrigibility at home. Is now out on parole, and was working again for drug company when he got a job carrying grips in the Union Depot. He is on the job from 6:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. (seventeen hours a day) for seven days in the week. His mother and the Judge think[s] he uses cocaine, and yet they let him put in these long hours every day. He told me "There ain't a house in 'The Acre,' (Red Light) that I ain't been in. At the drug store, all my deliveries were down there." Says he makes from $15.00 to $18.00 a week. Eugene Dalton. Location: Fort Worth, Texas.

Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixtee...

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[Going back to work. Youngest boy is Richard Millsap. The family record in bible says he is 11 years old - born Jan 22, 1903 (doubtful), and father says 12 years old. He appears to be under 9. Works every day at spinning, and has been working for some weeks. Boss saw investigator photographing him and whistled to him to get out. This photograph was gotten as he went in to work. Then boss took him off his regular job and put him helping others. Mother was furious at boss for not giving Richard and sister (a little older) more steady work. "He keeps changin em around and helpin others. I'll tell him that if he doesn't give em plenty of work there is plenty of mills that will." Father and mother both well and able to support family.] Location: Opelika, Alabama.

[Going back to work. Youngest boy is Richard Millsap. The family recor...

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A menace to Society. The Padgett family. The entire family including the mother totally illiterate. No one could read or write. The mother does mill work some. Alice, 17 years has steady job. Makes from $5 to $6 a week. Alfred, 13 years now, worked here when he was 12, and in other mills before that. Makes $4 a week. Recently crippled by getting his hand caught in the cogs of a spinning machine. Richard just reached 11. Been working here 1 year; began when he was 10. Makes $2.40 a week. "The work runs him down too." William, 6 years old, nearly blind. Lizzie, 5 years old. Home in utter neglect; filthy and bare. When investigator called the mother had been gone about an hour, leaving a roomer's 3 months old baby in the cradle before an open fire on the hearth, and only two children 5 and 6 years old - one nearly blind, playing around. She came back and fed them a lot of cheap candy. What will Society reap from its neglect of this family? Shaw Cotton Mills. Location: South Weldon, North Carolina.

A menace to Society. The Padgett family. The entire family including t...

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2 violations. Simon Birdsong (left hand boy) said: "I'm about 12." His mother said: "He's old enough to work all right," but the boy admitted that she had to sign up that he was older than he was. He appears to be 10. Has had job doffing for several weeks. Could not write his own name. Has had no schooling after the 1st grade. Wylie Haw (right hand boy). Mother says he is 12 years old now. Been working 1 year. She is a widow. Location: Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.

2 violations. Simon Birdsong (left hand boy) said: "I'm about 12." His...

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[Mrs. Dora Stainers, 562 1/2 Decatur St. 39 years old. Began spinning in an Atlanta mill at 7 years, and is in this mill work for 32 years. Only 4 days of schooling in her life. Began at 20 cents a day. The most she ever made was $1.75 a day & now she is earning $1 a day when she works. She is looking for a job. Her little girl Lilie is the same age she was when she started work, but the mother says, "I ain't goin to put her to work if I can help it. I'm goin' to give her as much education as I can so she can do better than I did." Mrs. Stainers is a woman of exceptional ability considering her training. In contrast to her is formed [?] another woman (this name was withheld) who has been working in Atlanta mills for 10 yrs. She began at 10 yrs. of age, married at 12, broke down, and may never be able to work again. Her mother went to work in the cotton mill very young.] Location: [Atlanta, Georgia]

[Mrs. Dora Stainers, 562 1/2 Decatur St. 39 years old. Began spinning ...

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[Mrs. Dora Stainers, 562 1/2 Decatur St. 39 years old. Began spinning in an Atlanta mill at 7 years, and is in this mill work for 32 years. Only 4 days of schooling in her life. Began at 20 cents a day. The most she ever made was $1.75 a day & now she is earning $1 a day when she works. She is looking for a job. Her little girl Lilie is the same age she was when she started work, but the mother says, "I ain't goin to put her to work if I can help it. I'm goin' to give her as much education as I can so she can do better than I did." Mrs. Stainers is a woman of exceptional ability considering her training. In contrast to her is formed [?] another woman (this name was withheld) who has been working in Atlanta mills for 10 yrs. She began at 10 yrs. of age, married at 12, broke down, and may never be able to work again. Her mother went to work in the cotton mill very young.] Location: [Atlanta, Georgia].

[Mrs. Dora Stainers, 562 1/2 Decatur St. 39 years old. Began spinning ...

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Mrs. Dora Stainers, 562 1/2 Decatur St. 39 years old. Began spinning in an Atlanta mill at 7 years, and is in this mill work for 32 years. Only 4 days of schooling in her life. Began at 20 cents a day. The most she ever made was $1.75 a day & now she is earning $1 a day when she works. She is looking for a job. Her little girl Lilie is the same age she was when she started work, but the mother says, "I ain't goin to put her to work if I can help it. I'm goin' to give her as much education as I can so she can do better than I did." Mrs. Stainers is a woman of exceptional ability considering her training. In contrast to her is formed [?] another woman (this name was withheld) who has been working in Atlanta mills for 10 yrs. She began at 10 yrs. of age, married at 12, broke down, and may never be able to work again. Her mother went to work in the cotton mill very young. Location: Atlanta, Georgia.

Mrs. Dora Stainers, 562 1/2 Decatur St. 39 years old. Began spinning i...

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[Mrs. Dora Stainers, 562 1/2 Decatur St. 39 years old. Began spinning in an Atlanta mill at 7 years, and is in this mill work for 32 years. Only 4 days of schooling in her life. Began at 20 cents a day. The most she ever made was $1.75 a day & now she is earning $1 a day when she works. She is looking for a job. Her little girl Lilie is the same age she was when she started work, but the mother says, "I ain't goin to put her to work if I can help it. I'm goin' to give her as much education as I can so she can do better than I did." Mrs. Stainers is a woman of exceptional ability considering her training. In contrast to her is formed [?] another woman (this name was withheld) who has been working in Atlanta mills for 10 yrs. She began at 10 yrs. of age, married at 12, broke down, and may never be able to work again. Her mother went to work in the cotton mill very young.] Location: [Atlanta, Georgia]

[Mrs. Dora Stainers, 562 1/2 Decatur St. 39 years old. Began spinning ...

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"Want any more MEN?" 7 year old Alec applying for job on tobacco farms. "Like fun I take what what [sic] they give me. A dollar a day is the cheapest I work." Location: Connecticut. / L.W. Hine.

"Want any more MEN?" 7 year old Alec applying for job on tobacco farms...

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Colleges and Universities - University of Michigan - Radio Work - Auto Mechanics. Learning how to do a brazing job. They are surprised to find how easily it is d1. University of Michigan

Colleges and Universities - University of Michigan - Radio Work - Auto...

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Carol Angel is shown in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Graham Fain works in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Samuel Wattree works in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Lucille Little works in the El Segundo Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Richard Springfield and William Ung are employed in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Miss Amanda Smith is employed in the Long Beach Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Kathryn Polinaire and Vivian King are employed in the Long Beach Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Ruth Miller works in the El Segundo Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Dora Miles and Dorothy Johnson are employed in the Long Beach Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Curtis Edwards works in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Luedell Mitchell and Lavada Cherry are shown in the El Segundo Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. R. B. Santona and L. C. Ross work together in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Dolores Aldrich is employed in the Long Beach Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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Homegrown food is homegrown health. Exercise, fresh air, sunshine, as well as good things to eat, mean good health for the whole family. Many hands are making light work of this job

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"What no spinach?????" Washington, D.C. September 8. It looks like hard work for Chef Joe Teophile (left) and J. Tervay (right). For theirs is the job of getting up the food for the banquet to be held in honor of the delegates to the Thrid World Power Conference which is being held here. The banquet is slated to be held next Thursday night at Union station here, and the number of guests is to be over three thousand. Mr. Tervay is the Cost Accountant and Mr. Teophile is the Head Chef

"What no spinach?????" Washington, D.C. September 8. It looks like har...

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Ability to recite from memory the constitution wins war veteran a job. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13. Harry E. Wilhelm, 43, a World War veteran and unemployed huckster of York, PA., won himself a job today on his ability to recite from memory the 6,757 words of the Constitution and Amendments. In his quest for work, Wilhelm called on Rep. Sol Bloom, Chairman of the United States Constitutional Sesquicentennial Commission, to whom he announced he was the only man in the world who could recite from memory the Constitution. Interested but skeptical, Bloom promised Wilhelm a job if he could back up hi claim. With Bloom checking the words, Wilhelm made good on his boast and is now an employee of the U.S. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission mail room. 9/13/37

Ability to recite from memory the constitution wins war veteran a job....

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Painters go on stike at new Internal Revenue building. Washington, D.C., July 19. Bryce P. Holcombe, Painters Union Business Agent, issues instructions to Albert Giacalone[?], striking Union Painter as he began picketing of Union Painters. Cause of the strike is the employment of non-union men by the firm holding the contract for the job. Today's walkout means that Union Painters have stopped work on all federal projects and the situation might devlop into a complete strike on government buildings in the Capitol, 7/19/37

Painters go on stike at new Internal Revenue building. Washington, D.C...

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Interesting job with Uncle Sam. Washington, D.C., Oct. 13. One volt after another is all in the day's work for Mrs. L.H. Brickwedde, who is a battery expert for the National Bureau of Standards. Using a potentiometer - or in other words, a standard cell comparator - Miss Brickwedde is shown calibrating standard cells in terms of priority standards of the electro motive force. 10/13/37

Interesting job with Uncle Sam. Washington, D.C., Oct. 13. One volt af...

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Itinerant statue maker putting together the pieces of a mold for one of his statues. He had been at one time an oil field worker. He said that the WPA (Work Projects Administration) had reduced the possibility of the man on the road getting a job. He said he believed he could farm if he could get a chance. Near Spiro, Oklahoma

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The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Virginia Young (right) whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of the state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with...

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Kern County, California. Camp of two related families seen from U.S. 99. Oil field beyond. Came to California in 1920 from Missouri. Father had job for eight years. Was gang foreman on Los Angeles Aqueduct; laid off two months ago. Now on way north looking for work. Doesn't want to go on Work Projects Administration (WPA)

Kern County, California. Camp of two related families seen from U.S. 9...

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Madera County, family from near Dallas, Texas. Rent is five dollars a month. "There's no future here. I've been following the work (migratory labor) but there's no chance for a fellow to get a holt hisself in this country. The last job I had is tractor driving for thirty-five cents an hour. Had that job for five months until a Filipino comes along for twenty-five cents an hour. I was raised on a cotton farm my father owned a little place back there and I'm plumb willing to leave this country for good before I get too old, If I could get the chance to farm."

Madera County, family from near Dallas, Texas. Rent is five dollars a ...

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No absenteeism here. Knoxville, Tennessee. As he threw the switch that started the first generators of Tenessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Douglas Dam, a vital war power-production unit, Patrick P. Marshall, steam-fitter, said: "I realized that any day I was absent was a day given to the enemy." Marshall had been on the job for 374 consecutive workdays. He was chosen among eighteen workers, all of whom never missed a day of work on Douglas, to speak for the employees. He is shown here being congratulated by W.L. Batt, War Production Board (WPB) vice-chairman, on the completion of a job that is making aluminum for bombers ahead of schedule

No absenteeism here. Knoxville, Tennessee. As he threw the switch that...

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Tough steel for a tough job. It takes tough steel to stand up in a Garand rifle. Here workmen are testing the hardness of steel at an eastern armory, a center of war work

Tough steel for a tough job. It takes tough steel to stand up in a Gar...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Building tanks is all right, says this worker, and he even admits it's a mighty important and necessary job, but it can't compare with stopping building tanks and going to work on pie and milk. He's eating his lunch in the midst of a pile of wheels and runners for M-3 tanks at the huge Detroit Chrysler tank arsenal

Chrysler tank arsenal. Building tanks is all right, says this worker, ...

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Mrs. David Gurly Tull, her son, and husband came from Arkansas looking for work at the new powder plant near Childersburg. Mr. Tull couldn't get a job at the powder plant but found temporary employment building bunkhouses. Childersburg, Alabama

Mrs. David Gurly Tull, her son, and husband came from Arkansas looking...

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Mrs. David Gurly Tull, her son, and husband came from Arkansas looking for work at the new powder plant near Childersburg. Mr. Tull couldn't get a job at the powder plant but found temporary employment building bunkhouses. Childersburg, Alabama

Mrs. David Gurly Tull, her son, and husband came from Arkansas looking...

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Mrs. David Gurly Tull, her son, and husband came from Arkansas looking for work at the new powder plant near Childersburg. Mr. Tull couldn't get a job at the powder plant but found temporary employment building bunkhouses. Childersburg, Alabama

Mrs. David Gurly Tull, her son, and husband came from Arkansas looking...

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Priorities unemployment. Once again the worker sits with his family, secure in a job, happy that he need not worry about supporting his family. His routine has been revised and rearranged; he calls upon a new skill to earn his living, but he retains the self-respect of the producer. He has a right to work, and his country benefits from the product of his work

Priorities unemployment. Once again the worker sits with his family, s...

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Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Harriet Haberman left an office job to take her place on the assembly line of a giant Midwest supercharger plant. Reflecting wartime emphasis on feminine employment, this plant points with pride to the fact that 80 percent of its workers are women. Miss Haberman's deft fingers have proven most suited to the intricate work of gauging small pieces for supercharger engines. Allis Chalmers Manufacture Company

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Harriet Haberman left an off...

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Authur Sven Brink and his family. Mr. Brink is a welder at an important war factory in the Minneapolis area. He lives in a medium-sized house with his wife Hilda and their four children: Mary Jane, four, Gloria, seven, Caren, ten, and Ruth twelve. Mr. Brink was born in Skara, a province of Vesterjutland, Sweden. His wife was born in Minnesota but her father came from Vastmanland and her mother from Varmland. They have been married thirteen years and have lived in Minneapolis all that time. Mr. Brink goes to work at six o'clock in the nmorning and hie earnings average ninety dollars per week. He has been a welder for fifteen years and has been on his new job for two months

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Authur Sven Brink and his family. Mr. Brin...

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Production. Minesweepers. He's still being strong at seventy-two. George Cardy gave up what he considered a soft job, watchman on a yacht, to take up his old work of servicing marine engines in an Eastern shipyard now turning out minesweepers. "One is as young as he feels," says Mr. Cardy, who is a grandfather and has a son in the Marines. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. He's still being strong at seventy-two. Geor...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. John J. Morris used to cut steel disc covers with his universal milling machine. These disc covers were part of the cube steak machines which are the normal products of the New England plant where he is employed. Today, however, Morris uses the same machine, tooled over for war subcontract work, for the cutting of large hexagonal nuts for a government arsenal. For cube steak machinery there was only one milling wheel, instead of the two shown above. "Hexing a nut" is a very simple job with a machine designed to shape the nut in a single operation, but such a machine is not available and time is short. Morris, therefore, shifts the round steel stock three times, cutting two sides at a time. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. John J. Morris used to cut steel dis...

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Women aircraft workers. An attractive brunette performs a job vital to Uncle Sam's victory push. She's one of the hundreds of women employed by a West Coast aircraft plant, pictured at work on a complex electrical assembly. Vega

Women aircraft workers. An attractive brunette performs a job vital to...

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Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A grocery store manager for thirteen years, C.R. Summers now is a sheet metal worker in a Southern Navy yard. Following a short training course in this work, he became adept at the job shown here, brazing on the sleeves that join lengths of copper tubing for Navy vessels

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A grocery store manager for thirt...

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Arthur Sven Brink and his family. Mr. Brink is a welder at an important war factory in the Minneapolis area. He lives in a medium-sized house with his wife Hilda and their four children: Mary Jane, four, Gloria, seven, Caren, ten, and Ruth, twelve. Mr. Brink was born in Skara, province of Vesterjutland, Sweden. His wife was born in Minnesota, but her father came from Vastmanland and her mother from Varmland. They have been married thirteen years and have lived in Minneapolis all that time. Mr. Brink goes to work at six o'clock in the morningand his earnings average ninety dollars per week. He has been a welder for fifteen years and has been on his new job for two months

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Arthur Sven Brink and his family. Mr. Brin...

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Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He's one of Uncle Sam's student paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the way he's getting his chute under control would be credit to an oldtimer. A few minutes ago this man bailed out of a high-speed plane at a point calculated to bring him to the spot where he is landing. Good work, soldier

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He'...

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Production. Ship propellers, etc. Balancing a giant ship propeller is a difficult job that must be done accurately. Two workmen, their eyes protected by goggles, chip away areas of the manganese bronze blades so that the power of the ship may be put to work efficiently. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. Ship propellers, etc. Balancing a giant ship propeller is ...

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Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He's one of Uncle Sam's student paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the way he's getting his chute under control would do credit to an old-timer. A few minutes ago this man bailed out of a high-speed plane at a point calculated to bring him to the spot where he is landing. Good work, soldier

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He'...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance. Mrs. Virginia Young (right), whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the ssembly and repairs department of the naval airbBase at Corpus Christi, Texas. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Pearl Harbor widows have gone i...

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Production. Aircraft engines. She used to be a librarian, now she inspects aircraft parts. Prior to Alma Jean Vincent's employment in a large Midwestern aircraft plant, she managed the junior book section of a suburban library. She had also been an assistant buyer of sportswear, but this lack of industrial experience seems to have been no handicap for her present job of visual gauge operator, inspecting airplane motor parts. With only six months of war work behind her, she's more than meeting plant requirements for speed and precision. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. She used to be a librarian, now she insp...

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Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. Just as the "long rifle" of the American pioneer was the world's best gun of its day, so the machine guns of our modern air force must be better than any other. Shaping a machine gun barrel is exacting work, but the precision techniques of a former auto plant readily handle the job. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. Just as the "long rifle" of...

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Women in industry. Tool production. Testing small diameter, high-speed twist drills, these women employed by a Midwest drill and tool company roll the drills down a slight incline to determine regularity of diameter. It's a job requiring patience and finger dexterity, and these young women possess those definite feminine propensities for just such work. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Testing small diameter, high-spee...

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Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. It there's the slightest flaw in any of these airplane motor parts, it will be caught by Gabrielle Corveau (left) and Elizabeth Kamerer, two youthful inspectors employed by a Midwest aircraft motor plant. An erstwhile office worker, model and salesgirl, nineteen-year-old Miss Corveau has done war work for only a short while, but her work is on a par with the company's veteran employees. Mrs. Kamerer, twenty-four, sole supporter of herself and her invalid husband, finds her war job both interesting and exciting. "It's thrilling to be a war worker," she says

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. It there's the slightest fl...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. Auburn-haired, twenty-one-year-old, Belva Fletcher, left, handicapped by progressive paralysis, is still able to do a good job for Uncle Sam. With twenty-five-year-old Henriette Furley, she's painting Y's for airplane engines at the Maryland League for Crippled Children, where this work is done under subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. Henriette is badly crippled by arthritis and must work standing because of the arthritic condition from which she suffers. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Auburn-haired, twenty-one-year-old, Bel...

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Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Muleteers and cannoneers rolled in one, the men of Battery C, 26th Battalion, Field Artillery Replacement Training Center, consider the most impossible terrain part of the day's work. With their guns and auxiliary equipment slung on the backs of army mules, they break through thick forests, ford streams, and scale mountain ranges. Their job is to go where mechanized and horse-drawn artillery can't go

Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Muleteers and cannoneers rolled in one, the men o...

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Women aircraft workers. Two Pearl Harbor widows work to defeat the Axis at a West Coast aircraft plnat. Mrs. Fern Evans, left and Mrs. Evelyn J. W. Casola work as a team on the riveting of radio support assemblies for bomber planes. Neither had previous mechanical experience prior to this job, but both are now successfully handling complicated mechanical jobs

Women aircraft workers. Two Pearl Harbor widows work to defeat the Axi...

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Production. Minesweepers. He's still being strong at seventy-two. George Cardy gave up what he considered a soft job, watchman on a yacht, to take up his old work of servicing marine engines in an Eastern shipyard now turning out minesweepers. "One is as young as he feels," says Mr. Cardy, who is a grandfather and has a son in the Marines. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. He's still being strong at seventy-two. Geor...

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Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. With a woman's determination, Lorena Craig takes over a man-sized job. Before she came to work at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas, Lorena was a department store girl. Now she is a cowler under Civil Service

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. With a woman's determination, L...

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Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. Earl M. Qualls, car dumper operator at Watts Bar, is job steward of the Hod Carriers' local union on TVAuthority, and is active in combatting absenteeism and in furthering war bond Red Cross drives

Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. Earl M. Qualls,...

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Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A multiple drill press operation in the making of Oerliken magazines for 20mm anti-aircraft guns. The converted cash register manufacturing plant doing the work adapted many of its regular workers and machines to the new job. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A multiple drill press op...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. A victim of infantile paralysis, Robert H. Drake, twenty-six, does a job any man would be proud of. He's an expert drill press operator in a Baltimore factory which makes airplane motor parts. Despite restricted use of both legs and his right arm, Robert maintains high production standards both for speed and quality of work. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. A victim of infantile paralysis, Robert...

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Mrs. Smuda's son. "Dear Mom..." Private Smuda writes to his mother from army camp. She's a member of that great army of American women who work just as hard for victory over the Axis as their sons on the front lines. Mrs. Smuda's particular job is tapering cartridge cases at the Frankford, Pennsylvania arsenal

Mrs. Smuda's son. "Dear Mom..." Private Smuda writes to his mother fro...

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Fort Knox. Earth moving equipment. A huge carryall scraper and a powerful tractor work on a cut-and-fill job as a new access road is built at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Fort Knox. Earth moving equipment. A huge carryall scraper and a power...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. No time out for eating on an overtime job. Making bomb sights comes easy to him, for he has had long experience in precision work at a commercial Kentucky watch case factory now entirely on a war production basis. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. No time out for eating on a...

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Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. She's still connecting lines--this former telephone operator who is learning how to solder iron wires. Jo Ann Whitington is being trained through an National Youth Administration (NYA) program for a civil service job in the assembly and repairs department of the naval air base at Corpus Christi, Texas. She will be a helper in electrical overhauling work

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. She's still connecting lines--t...

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Women in industry. Tool production. A job which was formerly done by hand (and by men) is done in this large Midwest drill and tool plant by women at machines. These young workers are putting precision-ground points on drills which will be used in production of America's ships, tanks and guns. It takes at least four months to train these young women in the operation of these machines, but at the end of that period their work is speedy and efficient, and this company has found that both production and the quality of the drill points have improved. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. A job which was formerly done by ...

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Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A grocery store manager for thirteen years, C.R. Summers now is a sheet metal worker in a Southern Navy yard. Following a short training course in this work, he became adept at the job shown here, brazing on the sleeves that join lengths of copper tubing for Navy vessels

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A grocery store manager for thirt...

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Production. Minesweepers. Grandad's doing a grand job. Two grandfathers, both seventy, D.L. Zimbrough and F.M. Webb, work on nearby lathes in an Eastern shipyard now turning out minesweepers for the Navy. The yard has kept up an excellent production by bringing many older workers out of retirement. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. Grandad's doing a grand job. Two grandfather...

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Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He's one of Uncle Sam's student paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the way he's getting his chute under contol would do credit to an old timer. A few minutes ago this man bailed out of a high-speed plane at a point calculated to bring him to the spot where he is landing. Good work, soldier

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He'...

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Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He's one of Uncle Sam's student paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the way he's getting his chute under control would be credit to an oldtimer. A few minutes ago this man bailed out of a high-speed plane at a point calculated to bring him to the spot where he is landing. Good work, soldier

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He'...

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Conversion. Safety razor plant. In a New England plant manufacturing safety razors, honed head blade clips for razors. Normally her full-time job, Estelle now spends much of her time grinding V-blocks on these same machines, which are rapidly being converted to war production work under a subcontract

Conversion. Safety razor plant. In a New England plant manufacturing s...

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Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. Herbert Smith, drill operator, is a member of a local labor-management cooperative committee and is a job steward. He has worked nine years for TVA without a single unauthorized absence

Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. Herbert Smith, ...

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Conversion. Toy factory. These two girls, Stephanie Cewe and Ann Manemeit, have turned their skill from peacetime production of toy trains to the assembling of parachute flare casings for the armies of democracy. Along with other workers in this Eastern plant, they have turned their skill to the vital needs of the day, and in many cases have seen to it that the machinery they used to use does Uncle Sam's most important work today. Stephanie, left, is assembling toy locomotives, driving screws and nuts with an electric screwdriver, while Ann is at her peacetime job assembling locomotive housings to their chassis. Today both girls are working with electric screwdrivers, assembling parachute flare casings. A. C. Gilbert Company, New Haven, Connecticut

Conversion. Toy factory. These two girls, Stephanie Cewe and Ann Manem...

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Women in industry. Tool production. A job which was formerly done by hand (and by men) is done in this large Midwest drill and tool plant by women at machines. These young workers are putting precision-ground points on drills which will be used in production of America's ships, tanks and guns. It takes at least four months to train these young women in the operation of these machines, but at the end of that period their work is speedy and efficient, and this company has found that both production and the quality of the drill points have improved. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. A job which was formerly done by ...

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Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He's one of Uncle Sam's student paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the way he's getting his chute under contol would do credit to an old timer. A few minutes ago this man bailed out of a high-speed plane at a point calculated to bring him to the spot where he is landing. Good work, soldier

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He'...

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Fort Knox. Earth moving equipment. A huge carryall scraper and a powerful tractor work on a cut-and-fill job as a new access road is built at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Fort Knox. Earth moving equipment. A huge carryall scraper and a power...

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More Women Must Work (Information on cover sheet: America at war needs 18 million women in full-time jobs.)

More Women Must Work (Information on cover sheet: America at war need...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Operator of this universal milling machine is John J. Morris shown here cutting steel disc covers for his company's normal product--cube steak machines. Today, Morris used the same machine adapted to war subcontract work- -the cutting of large hexagonal nuts for a government arsenal. "Hexing a nut" is a very simple job with a machine designed to shape the entire piece in one operation, but such a machine is not available and time is short. Morris, therefore, shifts the round piece of steel stock three times, cutting two sides in each operation. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Operator of this universal milling m...

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Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. This small cabin plane is being completely overhauled by students in an airplane mechanics class at a WPA training school in the District of Columbia. The overhaul job includes replacing fabric on the fuselage, wings, and tail surfaces. When these students finish the course, they will be qualified for jobs as expert airplane maintenance men

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. This s...

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Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. Competent instructors and well-equipped shops make for a successful vocational training school. This experienced Negro machinist is teaching a young Negro trainee the intricacies of lathe operation. After completion of the course in the WPA vocational training school, the student will be qualified for a job in one of our great arsenals of democracy

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. Compet...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Refrigerators to bombers. The last electric refrigerator that rolled from the assembly lines of a large eastern manufacturer, meant a new job for Gertie Saurborn. Formerly, her work was silver-soldering tubes on float cases for refrigerators destined for American homes. Now transferred to war work, along with hundreds of other former refrigerator employees, she is doing her part toward protecting those home by testing regulators being produced for U.S. Army and Navy bombers

Refrigerators to bombers. The last electric refrigerator that rolled f...

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Women in industry. Gas mask production. Flower in hair, Betty Gumbetter adds glamour to the assembly line of a Midwest gas mask factory which formerly made vacuum cleaners. Operating a riveting press, which attaches cloth tabs to the face pieces of gas masks, this young worker is one of the many company employees who switched over from work on vacuums when the plant was converted. Betty likes her new job better than the old one. "It bears a lot more relationship to my American Women's Voluntary Services work," she says. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Flower in hair, Betty Gumbette...

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A breathing spell in the day's work. Girl in an eastern arsenal whose job is inspecting the 50-caliber catridges designed for anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns

A breathing spell in the day's work. Girl in an eastern arsenal whose ...

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Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Scarlet fingernails give emphasis to the important work that feminine fingers are doing on this inspection line. Performing a delicate and repetitive job, women at this Midwest aircraft motor plant use dial indicator gauges in the process of inspection of ball sockets used in airplane motors

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Scarlet fingernails give em...

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Production. Minesweepers. F.M. Webb, age seventy, came out of retirement to return to his old job of machinist in an Eastern shipyard building minesweepers. "If my son can fight, I can work," he said. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. F.M. Webb, age seventy, came out of retireme...

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Bantam, Connecticut. Fred Heath has been operating at a turret lathe at the Warren McArthur plant since August 1941, leaving a job as machinist in Torrington to work here. With his wife and their three-year-old daughter, Heath was among the first to move into the new government housing project near the plant, leaving a furnished room in Torrington to occupy a spacious four-room apartment in the eighty-unit project

Bantam, Connecticut. Fred Heath has been operating at a turret lathe a...

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Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This worker in a New England plant that normally produces electric dry shavers is now busy turning out spring collets for machine tools to be used in war production. On this Norton type C six-inch semi-automatic cylindrical grinder, he used to turn out rotor shafts for the motor of the shaver. To convert his machine to the larger grinding job, it was necessary only to exchange the normal one-inch vitrified aluminum oxide wheel for a three-inch wheel and to increase the feed of the cooling solution. This worker was used to working to a tolerance of .0002 inches on the motor shafts so he finds it simple to attain the comparatively rough tolerance of .002 inches required on this war work. Schick Inc., Stamford, Connecticut

Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This worker in a New England plant ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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