President Truman was all smiles recently when he was presented with a 31 pound Alaskan King salmon by Gov. Ernest H. Gruening of Alaska. Governor Gruening (center) made the presentation in the presence of Secretary of the Interior J.A. Krug. The...
Long Beach CA- As this swift and deadly attack bomber rolled off production lines of Douglas Aircraft Companys blackout plant here, the first for 1942, Douglas employees tagged it: With New Years greetings to Emperor Hirohito from 130,000,000...
A two in one picture, a photograph of Negroes picking cotton in a field just across a railroad track from a large cotton mill, in North Carolina which state is winning from Massachusetts some of her fame as a cotton mill state. This picture...
Laser assisted machining is one of several advanced techniques being explored at the General Electric Research and Development Center in Schenectady, N.Y. to improve productivity and lower costs in the metalworking industry. In their experiments,...
For the first time in almost four years, new passenger cars emerged from Studebaker assembly lines, today. The company had been ready to produce automobiles for 13 weeks, but a labor dispute in the plant of a major parts supplier held up...
Scene from a coal mine thousands of feet under a mountain in West Virginia, where W.E. Austin, movie cameraman for the Norfolk and western Railway, is shown taking what are believed to be the first color movies inside a mine. The shots were taken...
Close up of south face of Brookhaven Reactor-Through these holes in the south face of the Brookhaven reactor are introduced tons of pure uranium metal. Once in the graphite moderator of the reactor proper, uranium atoms fission, or spilt, in a...
Ford surprised the auto industry by bringing out a low priced car with a V8 engine whose engine block was cast in one piece. At prices ranging from $460 to $650, the swift and stylish V8 gave Ford a performance reputation that helped carry it...
Williamson WV-Some three thousand coal cars, all empty, await termination of the coal strike at Williamson WV, center of one of the nation's richest bituminous coal fields. Loaded, these cars would hold approximately 150,000 tons of coal....
High quality mass production results from industry's investment in special purpose machines like that shown above, which drills the entire oil system in an automobile crankshaft in one continuous operation.
How a wooden ship is built-a photographic story of a great wartime industry. A close-up of wooden ship riveters at work-pinning together the ribs and the heavy timbers of the floor and inner hull.
Collection guide for the William du Pont Family Papers. The William du Pont family papers, 450 linear feet, consist of correspondence, financial records and printed materials, which document the personal and business activities of the father and...
The album contains photographs taken during an inspection trip made by a party from the Coal Lands Securities Company to properties in West Virginia owned by the Lackawanna Coal and Lumber Company and the Highland Lumber Company. This trip was made...
Sperry-Univac NEWS photograph. Original caption reads: "Moon rovers--- Dr. John W. Mauchly, left, and Dr. J. Presper Eckert, co-inventors of ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital computer, are visiting Cape Kennedy together for the first...
Text from back of image: "Two "Bristol" 840 h.p. Mercury engines. The first all-metal modern twin-engined monoplane for the R. A. F. to carry the whole of the military load within the structure. Saw service with all the Commands of the R. A. F. and...
