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Transportation: Lend Lease Shipments. Coils of copper wire, part of a lend-lease shipment, move from a pier to a United Nations freighter that will carry them, together with other vital necessities, to one of our allies.
Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
Transportation: Lend Lease Shipments. Coils of copper wire, part of a lend-lease shipment, move from a pier to a United Nations freighter that will carry them, together with other vital necessities, to one of our allies.
February 1943
2000.0789.0008
Production: BT-13A ("Valiant") Basic Trainers. Scrap pile being sorted at Vultee's Downey, Calif. plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer - a fast sturdy ship powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine.
Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
Production: BT-13A ("Valiant") Basic Trainers. Scrap pile being sorted at Vultee's Downey, Calif. plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer - a fast sturdy ship powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine.
1942-43
2000.0789.0007
Production: BT-13A ("Valiant") Basic Trainers. A midget and a woman worker install control wires on a "Valiant" basic trainer. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer - a fast sturdy ship powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine.
Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
Production: BT-13A ("Valiant") Basic Trainers. A midget and a woman worker install control wires on a "Valiant" basic trainer. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer - a fast sturdy ship powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine.
1942-43
2000.0789.0006
Lunch time
Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
Lunch time
February 1943
2000.0789.0005
She'd pass for a choir singer
Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
She'd pass for a choir singer
February 1943
2000.0789.0004
Preparation for Point Rationing: With Official Table of Point Values for Processed Foods prominently posted, a shopper awaits wrapping of her purchases while clerk removes point stamps from War Ration Book Two.
Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
Preparation for Point Rationing: With Official Table of Point Values for Processed Foods prominently posted, a shopper awaits wrapping of her purchases while clerk removes point stamps from War Ration Book Two.
February 1943
2000.0789.0003
Conservation: Rendering of Household Fats. Reclaimed household greases from America's kitchens drain into an open vat at a rendering plant. Some of the batches are recooked with additional fats to bring them up to certain specific grades.
Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
Conservation: Rendering of Household Fats. Reclaimed household greases from America's kitchens drain into an open vat at a rendering plant. Some of the batches are recooked with additional fats to bring them up to certain specific grades.
February 1943
2000.0789.0002
Conservation: Rendering of Household Fats. Cracklings discharged by an expeller at a fat rendering plant. These cracklings consist of meat, bones and some fats, and are used as animal food.
Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
Conservation: Rendering of Household Fats. Cracklings discharged by an expeller at a fat rendering plant. These cracklings consist of meat, bones and some fats, and are used as animal food.
February 1943
2000.0789.0001
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