Collection Items
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Sign for Silent-nite tourist rooms, "soldiers in uniform free lodging"] 1 photographic print.- Contributor: Bubley, Esther
- Date: 1940-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingFort Hayes, Ohio, 1941-43(?)--Colored troops getting on a train 1 photographic print.- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingProductive America. Ploughman in the spring--a scene reminiscent of a Corot painting. This truck farm near Cleveland, Ohio is typical of many that supply food to neighboring cities 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1940-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingLoading raw rubber. Bales of raw rubber, removed from wooden crates in which they have traveled from Singapore, are wheeled up to this endless chain loader, which will automatically feed it into … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office of War Information - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Assembling the balloon. These workers are ready to fasten one-half of a barrage balloon to the other half--the final major step in the assembly of the huge balloon. After … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office of War Information - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Making a suspension band. These workers are preparing a reinforced band which will be attached longitudinally around the barrage balloon. This band carries most of the rigging by which … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Getting supplies at the storehouse. This barrage balloon builder has come to the company's storehouse to obtain more reinforcing tape to fasten the seams of a barrage balloon. Small, … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Rubber tailor shop. Using a tailor's electric cutter--a speedup suggestion from one of the young workers--these workers slice through several thicknesses of rubber fabric as they cut the patterns … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Neck and neck in the stretch. Appearing like race horses galloping down each side of a long strip of barrage balloon fabric, the worker with the scissors apparently finishing … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Folding instructions. Supervisor Howard Swires instructs a worker at barrage balloon department in the technique of folding fabric patterns to make efficient use of all working space. General Tire … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Seamers at work. Putting rubber cement on both surfaces which are to be fastened together, these workers assemble individual pattern pieces into strips or "gores" for barrage balloons being … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Lineup of cementers. Assembling patterns into gores which in turn are assembled into balloon sections, these workers are charged with making seams strong and gas-tight, since the full tug … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Final patching and tying. Men in the foreground are rolling cemented patches into correct position on the outside walls of a barrage balloon, while their co-worker in the background … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Fitting a manhold vent in the sidewall of a barrage balloon. These workers are putting in the final pieces of equipment on a completed barrage balloon, just prior to … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office of War Information - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Tugging a finished half of a barrage balloon into position for joining with the other half. These workers have come to the final assembly step in producing barrage balloons … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Birthplace for air-whales--gigantic barrage balloons which look like monster whales-of-the-air, made in this huge room. Four are seen here: left rear is a balloon being folded into the shipping … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. John and his colleagues. Silhouetted against the spiderweb pattern of the inside of a great barrage balloon, this supervisor watches "balloon tailors" at work on an inside seam. The … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office of War Information - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Spider and the flies. Putting last touches on a completed barrage balloon are these workers and their supervisor (standing). To inspect the bag for leaks, the light inside is … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office of War Information - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Climbing out of the manhole. This opening provides a human escape for the worker who has been inside the balloon checking it for leaks. Next to him is the … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingFill 'er up! Tugging at the large hose, known as the "inflation sleeve", this worker stands inside the "manhole" of a new barrage balloon to guide the sleeve into the opening through … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. All out for defense! Scrambling out of the zipper-covered "manhole" in the nose of a gigantic barrage balloon, this worker has finished patching, touching up and checking the great … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office of War Information - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Reinforcing the fins of a fish-of-the-air. These workers at the barrage balloon division, are putting double reinforcements on the right fin of a completed barrage balloon before it is … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office of War Information - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Glove for a gas bag. Fitting the outstretched fingers of a fabric patch to the side of a barrage balloon, this worker must be extremely careful to put the … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Cementing with a paint brush. This worker is a fabric cementer busy applying a rigging patch to the side of a new barrage balloon. Although the fabric looks mussed … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarrage balloon manufacture. Reinforcing tail rigging of a new ballonet type barrage balloon, these workers at the barrage plant are cementing, seaming and rolling reinforcing tape across points in the tail and … 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Palmer, Alfred T.
- Date: 1941-01-01