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Cynthia's complete dress spells style plus conservation. By obtaining best quality for least money, Cynthia practices one important war saving: quality wears longer. To twist a turban, Cynthia bought an extra half-yard of material; thus she has a complete costume from a minumum of material. With charming results Cynthia has contributed to the billion yard fabric saving announced by WPB (War Production Board)
1943. | 1 negative ;
LC-USW33- 021695-ZC [P&P] | LC-USW33-021695-ZC (b&w film neg.) -
Dress almost finished, Cynthia adjusts her skirt length. The dress's hem will be no deeper than WPB (War Production Board)-approved two inches. Cynthia's fabric-conserving pattern requires only three yards of 39-inch material. For all its fashionable appearance it wastes not one inch of material on unnecessary details. A pattern can be used several times; should not be destroyed when first dress is completed
1943. | 1 negative ;
LC-USW33- 021696-ZC [P&P] | LC-USW33-021696-ZC (b&w film neg.) -
Cynthia stiches basic seams before fitting, a principle of simplified sewing. While no new sewing machines are being made and the factories are turning out war goods (WPB (War Production Board) assures an adequate supply of machine repair parts for home dressmakers. To fully utilize existing machines, many women form communiuty pools, make machines available to those who would like to buy them and ...
1943. | 1 negative ;
LC-USW331- 021689-ZC [P&P] | LC-USW331-021689-ZC (b&w film neg.) -
Wartime conservation through home sewing is demonstrated by Powers model Cynthia Hope who works with a fabric-saving dress pattern. All patterns are now adjusted to WPB (War Production Board) conservation rules. Average saving: 1/8 yard per dress. Cynthia cuts the top of her contrast dress with a remnant which would otherwise be wasted. Utilizing remnants saves tremendous yardage, gets smart results
1943. | 1 negative ;
LC-USW331- 021690-ZC [P&P] | LC-USW331-021690-ZC (b&w film neg.) -
Material from last year's garment fashions the skirt of Cynthia's dress. By making some of the clothes for herself and her family, a woman can fully utilize all leftovers. To conseerve fabric, old garments should be re-made when not worn out. Mothers with young children "cut down" discarded adult coats, suits and dresses, conservation measure of an earlier generation
1943. | 1 negative ;
LC-USW331- 021691-ZC [P&P] | LC-USW331-021691-ZC (b&w film neg.) -
Simplified sewing methods now being taught to thousandes of American women through stores, pattern companies, and radio show how to assemble a pattern as Cynthia is doing. As they did in the last war, thousands of women are asking for sewing instructions. Streamlined methods make sewing quick and easy. To save fabric and time, size corrections are quickly made on paper before the goods ...
1943. | 1 negative ;
LC-USW331- 021692-ZC [P&P] | LC-USW331-021692-ZC (b&w film neg.) -
Waistline adjustment can usually be made entirely at the easy side seam with no more difficulty than Cynthia appears to be having. By studying intricate print carefully before placing pattern, Cynthia makes very smart use of unusual flower design. Beginners are advised to use conventional "all-over" for firsdt dress or two, guarding against possible wartime waste of dress materials
1943. | 1 negative ;
LC-USW331- 021693-ZC [P&P] | LC-USW331-021693-ZC (b&w film neg.) -
Self-fitting is easy for Cynthia because she applies new simplified methods. Her dress is already permanently stiched at the waistline; corrections are being made at the shoulder seam. Modern technique avoids confusing pieces; dress quickly emerges in final form. Good sewing schools advocate minimum of basting. Prefer tailors' chalk to pins so fitting isn't "lost" in removing garment
1943. | 1 negative ;
LC-USW331- 021694-ZC [P&P] | LC-USW331-021694-ZC (b&w film neg.) -
Cynthia's complete dress spells style plus conservation. By obtaining best quality for least money, Cynthia practices one important war saving: quality wears longer. To twist a turban, Cynthia bought an extra half-yard of material; thus she has a complete costume from a minumum of material. With charming results Cynthia has contributed to the billion yard fabric saving announced by WPB (War Production Board)
1943. | 1 negative ;
LC-USW331- 021695-ZC [P&P] | LC-USW331-021695-ZC (b&w film neg.) -
Dress almost finished, Cynthia adjusts her skirt length. The dress's hem will be no deeper than WPB (War Production Board)-approved two inches. Cynthia's fabric-conserving pattern requires only three yards of 39-inch material. For all its fashionable appearance it wastes not one inch of material on unnecessary details. A pattern can be used several times; should not be destroyed when first dress is completed
1943. | 1 negative ;
LC-USW331- 021696-ZC [P&P] | LC-USW331-021696-ZC (b&w film neg.) -
America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. Oil well derricks on the beach along the coast of the U.S. Pacific coast state of California indicate how thorough is the seach for oil which has been going on in America for more than eighty years. Some beach wells are drilled straight down to reach oil deposits, but others are drilled ...
1944? | 1 negative ;
LC-USW4- 029545 [P&P] | LC-USW4-029545 (b&w film neg.) -
America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. An oil well, marked by a tall, steel derrick, is producing oil for the United Nations in the garden of a private home in Oklahoma City, capital of the U.S. southwest state of Oklahoma. Oil industrialists in the U.S. have searched for oil over nearly every foot of the ground in America. ...
1944? | 1 negative ;
LC-USW4- 029546 [P&P] | LC-USW4-029546 (b&w film neg.) -
America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. An "oil flow chart," showing the course of oil through a modern plant, is being studied by men of an oil "cracking" unit in the U.S., while an expert explains to them the intracacies of the chart. Large oil "cracking" plants, for the rapid production of aviation gasoline and other products, are ...
1944? | 1 negative ;
LC-USW4- 029547 [P&P] | LC-USW4-029547 (b&w film neg.) -
America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. At an oil well in the U.S. Southwest state of Oklahoma, oil drillers are using tools called "tongs" which are clamped on the drill stem to screw on a new section of stem or to unscrew the stem, section by section, after the drilling far below the earth's surface is finished. This ...
1944? | 1 negative ;
LC-USW4- 029548 [P&P] | LC-USW4-029548 (b&w film neg.) -
America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. A geologist, employed by one of the important U.S. oil companies, surveys, with the help of his "rod man" standing on the ridge in the background, a section of land to detect the presence of a possible oil deposit under the ground. "Hit or miss" methods of drilling for oil were discarded ...
1944? | 1 negative ;
LC-USW4- 029549 [P&P] | LC-USW4-029549 (b&w film neg.) -
America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. A geology expert of one of the large oil companies U.S. displays two varieties of sand from an oil drilling district. The hand on the left holds dry, oil-less sand, while the one on the right holds sand rich and dark with oil. The latter oil-soaked sand, called "Simpson sand," is the ...
1944? | 1 negative ;
LC-USW4- 029550 [P&P] | LC-USW4-029550 (b&w film neg.) -
America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. Men at the wheels of large valves regulate the flow of oil into oil tankers at a U.S. Atlantic coast seaport. The oil, flowing from large storage tanks on the dock, is being transhipped to the armed forces of the U.S. and other of the United Nation. Through valves like these pour ...
1944? | 1 negative ;
LC-USW4- 029551 [P&P] | LC-USW4-029551 (b&w film neg.) -
America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. A large pipeline valve controls a pipe leading from storage tanks on shore to fuel tanks of a U.S. merchant ship. This oil dock is in a U.S. Atlantic coast seaport at which oil in large quantities is continually being transhipped for war purposes. The equipment belongs to on the the principal ...
1944? | 1 negative ;
LC-USW4- 029552 [P&P] | LC-USW4-029552 (b&w film neg.) -
America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. These three new catalytic oil "cracking" units are turning out gasoline for the new machines of war at the plant of a large U.S. refining company in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana. In the eight years of the development of the "cracking" process in producing gasoline, it is estimated that 1,000,000,000 ...
1944? | 1 negative ;
LC-USW4- 029553 [P&P] | LC-USW4-029553 (b&w film neg.) -
America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. Railroad cars stand on a side track ready to receive cargoes of gasoline stored in large spherical tanks at the refinery of one of the principal U.S. oil companies. The cars will speed the gasoline across the American continent to seaports where it will be loaded onto tanker ships for conveyance overseas ...
1944? | 1 negative ;
LC-USW4- 029554 [P&P] | LC-USW4-029554 (b&w film neg.)
