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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Food machinery plant. This is a specially designed chuck for a newly acquired second-hand turret lathe, which this Eastern cube steak machinery plant recently bought from a nearby shoe factory in ... 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war effort is Phineas Davenport Allen, seventy-eight-year-old mechanic who worked on steering riggings for submarines during World War I. Today he is ... 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war effort is Phineas Davenport Allen, seventy-eight-year-old mechanic who worked on steering riggings for submarines during World War I. Today he is ... 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Hollem, Howard R. - United States. Office of War Information
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of hours to change this block adapter from its former work on the production of cube steak machinery to spout ... 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Food machinery plant. In the background is a cube steak machine, normal product of a New England plant now doing work on various war subcontracts. In the foreground are twenty-four items ... 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube ... 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Food machinery plant. John J. Morris used to cut steel disc covers with this universal milling machine. These disc covers were part of the cube steak machines which are the normal ... 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tanks guns such as those shown in the foreground is the present work of this lathe, formerly used in the production of cube steak ... 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. 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 ... 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns is the present work of this lathe, shown here at its former job-shaping wooden rollers used with a belt control to carry ... 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube ... 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns is the present work of this lathe, shown here at its former job--shaping of wooden rollers used with a belt control to ... 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. 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 ... 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of hours to change this block adapter from its former work, on the production of cube steak machinery, to spout ... 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of hours to change this block adapter from its former work, on the production of cube steak machinery to spout ... 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns is the present work of this lathe, shown here at its former job--shaping of wooden rollers used with a belt control to ... 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Hollem, Howard R. - United States. Office of War Information
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. 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 ... 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Hollem, Howard R. - United States. Office of War Information
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Safety razor plant. Because of their dexterity and precision in the operation of light-duty machines, women are appearing in ever-increasing numbers on America's production lines. Here Estelle Wilson resharpens grinding wheel ... 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Hollem, Howard R. - United States. Office of War Information
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Safety razor plant. Closeup of grinder converted from production of safety razors to tool-posts. Only conversion necessary in this instance is of the tool holding the V-block, which is held in ... 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Safety razor plant. Estelle Wilson, one of a New England razor factory's many women workers, checks completed V-blocks with blueprint specification. Because of their previous training, reading blueprints is no novelty ... 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Safety razor plant. From razor blades to V-blocks in few weeks! That's the story of Estelle Wilson, one of a New England razor company's many women employees who are now operating ... 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Safety razor plant. Rita Allen sands V-blocks to remove marks made by milling machines. This razor factory has converted many of its machines to the production of tool posts which are ... 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Safety razor plant. Checking dimensions of completed V-block, shop supervisor George Cole explains testing processes to Edith Krause. Both these workers have graduated from razor blades to tool posts because of ... 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Hollem, Howard R. - United States. Office of War Information
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Safety razor plant. He used to make razor blades, but now he's a vital cog in Uncle Sam's war production machine. Charles Taylor, inspects steel part on converted horizontal grinder. Gillette 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: United States. Office for Emergency Management - Hollem, Howard R.
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConversion. Safety razor plant. Operation of surface grinder in production of V-blocks for the machine that makes America's war machine. Women are rapidly being drafted to fill men's jobs on light-duty machines ... 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Hollem, Howard R. - United States. Office of War Information
- Date: 1942-01-01