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274 results containing "United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia County--Philadelphia."
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Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. A glass ring gauge for the inspection of fuse parts. These gauges are replacing steel gauges at the Frankford Arsenal. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greater visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need no protection against rusting, do not acquire ...
1943 Jan. | 1 negative | Hollem, Howard R.
LC-USE6- D-008201 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-008201 (b&w film neg.) -
Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Glass gauges of various types are replacing steel gauges at the Frankford Arsenal. Left, top to bottom: double-end gauge, "go" plug gauge, ring gauge. Right, top to bottom: "not go" plug gauge, double and solid-handle plug gauge, double-end taper-lock standard, handle plug gauge. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greater visibility in inspection, are not as ...
1943 Jan. | 1 negative | Hollem, Howard R.
LC-USE6- D-008202 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-008202 (b&w film neg.) -
Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. A steel plug gauge is compared with a glass plug gauge which replaces it at the Frankford Arsenal. A plain ring glass gauge shows in the foreground. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greatly visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need ...
1943 Jan. | 1 negative | Hollem, Howard R.
LC-USE6- D-008203 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-008203 (b&w film neg.) -
Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Inspecting a gear with a steel ring, since replaced by a glass gauge at the Frankford Arsenal. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greater visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need no protection against rusting, do not acquire burrs that would ...
1943 Jan. | 1 negative | Hollem, Howard R.
LC-USE6- D-008204 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-008204 (b&w film neg.) -
Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. A steel plug gauge, since replaced by a glass gauge at the Frankford Arsenal, is shown checking an inside diameter of a cartridge case. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greater visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need no protection against ...
1943 Jan. | 1 negative | Hollem, Howard R.
LC-USE6- D-008205 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-008205 (b&w film neg.) -
War nursery schools. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Picture books, blocks, modeling clay, story hours, music, for the pre-school children of war working mothers. War nurseries are generally to be under trained supervisory personnel and will be operated in connection with the public schools in communities of intense industrial production
1943 Feb. | 1 negative | Rosener, Ann
LC-USE6- D-010157 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-010157 (b&w film neg.) -
Office of Price Administration's (OPAA) Philadelphia enforcement attorney (no name available) hands out questionaires to volunteer women investigators in last weeks (week of June 7, 1942) drive to check price ceiling and rationing violations in test spots: New York, Newark and Philadelphia
1942 June. | 1 negative | Danor, George
LC-USE6- D-010502 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-010502 (b&w film neg.) -
Posed photograph at a department store in Philadelphia, with volunteer woman investigator checking for Office of Price Administration's (OPA) enforcement agency prices of lingerie and hosiery
1942 or 1943. | 1 negative | Danor, George
LC-USE6- D-010504 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-010504 (b&w film neg.) -
Volunteer woman investigator for the Office of Price Administration (OPA) enforcement agency in Philadelphia, one of three cities selected in a test drive to discover violations of rationing and ceiling prices, in a department store checking prices of women's apparel. All investigators were required to fill out reports, regardless whether violations were uncovered or not. A number of complaints against law violations in three ...
1942 or 1943. | 1 negative | Danor, George
LC-USE6- D-010505 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-010505 (b&w film neg.) -
Waste paper. Packing boxes for defense products will be made from this load of waste paper. It has just then been delivered to a Philadelphia paper mill, where it will be chopped up. Combined with water and rolled out into the pasteboard packing materials so badly needed for shipment of our own defense goods and those which we send abroad
1942 Feb. | 1 negative | Palmer, Alfred T.
LC-USE6- D-001547 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-001547 (b&w film neg.) -
Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the paper packing so badly needed today for shipment of defense and lend-lease goods. This pile of directories is in the stock room of a Philadelphia paper mill, which will make pasteboard packing out of it
[between 1940 and 1946] | 1 negative | Palmer, Alfred T.
LC-USE6- D-001551 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-001551 (b&w film neg.) -
Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the paper packing so badly needed today for shipment of defense and lend-lease goods. This pile of directories is in the stock room of a Philadelphia paper mill, which will make pasteboard packing out of it
[between 1940 and 1946] | 1 negative | Palmer, Alfred T.
LC-USE6- D-001552 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-001552 (b&w film neg.) -
Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the paper packing so badly needed today for shipment of defense and lend-lease goods. This pile of directories is in the stock room of a Philadelphia paper mill, which will make pasteboard packing out of it
[between 1940 and 1946] | 1 negative | Palmer, Alfred T.
LC-USE6- D-001553 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-001553 (b&w film neg.) -
Waste paper. For defense use, this pile of waste paper is being delivered by a dealer to a large Philadelphia paper mill. There it will be chopped up and combined with water, then pressed into pasteboard packing so vitally needed for shipment of defense and lend-lease goods
[between 1940 and 1946] | 1 negative | Palmer, Alfred T.
LC-USE6- D-001554 [P&P] | LC-USE6-D-001554 (b&w film neg.) -
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Stapling paper bags containing bulbs at the W. Atlee Burpee Company, seed dealers
1943 Apr. | 1 negative | Siegel, Arthur S.
LC-USW3- 022312-D [P&P] LOT 298 (corresponding photographic print) | LC-USW3-022312-D (b&w film neg.) -
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sealing envelopes containing seed at the W. Atlee Burpee Company, seed dealers
1943 Apr. | 1 negative | Siegel, Arthur S.
LC-USW3- 022313-D [P&P] LOT 298 (corresponding photographic print) | LC-USW3-022313-D (b&w film neg.) -
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mail bags ready for shipment at the W. Atlee Burpee Company, seed dealers
1943 Apr. | 1 negative | Siegel, Arthur S.
LC-USW3- 022314-D [P&P] LOT 298 (corresponding photographic print) | LC-USW3-022314-D (b&w film neg.) -
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Order assembler standing next to racks containing seed packages at the W. Atlee Burpee Company, seed dealers
1943 Apr. | 1 negative | Siegel, Arthur S.
LC-USW3- 022316-D [P&P] LOT 298 (corresponding photographic print) | LC-USW3-022316-D (b&w film neg.) -
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Women order assemblers in front of seed racks at the W. Atlee Burpee Company, seed dealers
1943 Apr. | 1 negative | Siegel, Arthur S.
LC-USW3- 022317-D [P&P] LOT 298 (corresponding photographic print) | LC-USW3-022317-D (b&w film neg.) -
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Finding seed package in seed rack at the W. Atlee Burpee Company, seed dealers
1943 Apr. | 1 negative | Siegel, Arthur S.
LC-USW3- 022318-D [P&P] LOT 298 (corresponding photographic print) | LC-USW3-022318-D (b&w film neg.)
