2nd World War Collection (page 17)

Men and a woman reading headlines posted in street-corner window of Brockton... Mass. 1940. Creator: Jack Delano
Men and a woman reading headlines posted in street-corner window of Brockton Enterprise newspaper office on Christmas Eve, Brockton, Mass

Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switch engine in yard near Calumet park... near Chicago, Ill. 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switch engine in yard near Calumet park stockyards, Calumet City (near Chicago), Ill

Santa Fe R. R. line leaving Cadiz, Calif. 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
Santa Fe R.R. line leaving Cadiz, Calif. This town is a junction point with a branch going to Phoenix, Ariz

Freight cars in the Chicago and North Western Railroad classification yard(?), Chicago, Ill. 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
Freight cars in the Chicago and Northwestern [i.e. North Western] Railroad classification yard(?), Chicago, Ill. General view of Proviso yard

A Chicago and North Western railroad roundhouse, Chicago, Ill. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
A Chicago and Northwestern [i.e. North Western] railroad roundhouse, Chicago, Ill

West-bound passenger train going around a curve on the Atchison... near Gleed, Arizona, 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
West-bound passenger train going around a curve on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad between Winslow and Seligman, Arizona, near Gleed, Arizona

Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR, 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill

Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the C & NW R s, Chicago, Ill, 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the Chicago and Northwestern [i.e. North Western] Railroad. The laboratory assistant in foreground is working at a precision balance. Chicago, Ill

Belt Railway, looking toward the west yard of clearing yard, from bridge of hump, Chicago, Ill
Belt Railway, looking toward the west yard of clearing yard, taken from bridge of the hump, Chicago, Ill

Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switchman demonstrating signal with a "fusee"... 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switchman demonstrating signal with a " fusee" - used at twilight and dawn - when visibility is poor. This signal means " stop." Calumet City, Ill

A completely overhauled engine on the transfer table at the Atchison, Topeka... New Mexico. 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
A completely overhauled engine on the transfer table at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad locomotive shops, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is now ready to go into service

Mojave Desert country, crossed by the Santa Fe R. R. Cadiz, Calif. 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
Mojave Desert country, crossed by the Santa Fe R.R. Cadiz, Calif

Possibly: Air raid wardens meeting in zone nine, Southwest area, Washington, D. C. 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Washington, D.C. Air raid wardens meeting in zone nine, Southwest area. Elmer House, federal worker by day and on air raid duty at night

Junior air raid warden, Washington, D. C. 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Junior air raid warden

Crowds of soldiers, sailors, and civilians waiting to board trains at... Washington, D.C. 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Crowds of soldiers, sailors, and civilians waiting to board trains at Union Station

Air raid wardens meeting in zone nine, Southwest area, Washington, D. C, 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Air raid wardens meeting in zone nine, Southwest area. Mr. Frederick Douglas, chairman, and Mrs. Hunton, secretary

Exhibit at the outdoor exhibition entitled "The Nature of the Enemy, "... New York, 1943
New York, New York. Exhibit at the outdoor exhibition entitled " The Nature of the Enemy, " held on the plaza of Rockefeller Center

Women welders at the Landers, Frary, and Clark plant, New Britain, Connecticut, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
New Britain, Connecticut. Women welders at the Landers, Frary, and Clark plant

Air raid wardens attending a meeting in their headquarters, Washington, D. C. 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Air raid wardens attending a meeting in their headquarters, which is provided by the landlord, in the basement of a large apartment building

Commencement exercises at Howard University, Washington, D. C, 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Commencement exercises at Howard University

A Marcus Garveyite reading the OWI publication Negroes and the War, New York, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
New York, New York. A Marcus Garveyite reading the OWI (Office of War Information) publication Negroes and the War

Possibly: International student assembly, Washington, D. C, 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Washington, D.C. International student assembly. Pilot officer Russell Garlick, a delegate from New Zealand]

Possibly: Women employed at Landers, Frary and Clark plant, New Britain, Connecticut, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: New Britain, Connecticut. Women employed at Landers, Frary and Clark plant. A shuttle driver]

Possibly: A core blowing machine, New Britain, Connecticut, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: New Britain, Connecticut A core blowing machine. Sand is blown into the core box as it travels away from the machine on a conveyor]

Sign on front of a motor truck, New York, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
New York, New York. Sign on front of a motor truck

Many of the Fulton fish market men are in the armed forces, New York, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
New York, New York. Many of the Fulton fish market men are in the armed forces. [ Fulton Markets Men in the Armed Forces of our Country - For Victory!

Women employed at Landers, Frary and Clark plant, New Britain, Connecticut, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
New Britain, Connecticut. Women employed at Landers, Frary and Clark plant. A shuttle driver

Hot cores to be used by the U.S. Army to make molds for meat... New Britain, Connecticut, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
New Britain, Connecticut. Hot cores to be used by the U.S. Army to make molds for meat choppers at the Landers, Frary and Clark plant being taken from baking ovens

A core blowing machine, New Britain, Connecticut, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
New Britain, Connecticut A core blowing machine. Sand is blown into the core box as it travels away from the machine on a conveyor

Street peddler in the Harlem section, New York, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
New York, New York. Street peddler in the Harlem section

A Harlem street scene, New York, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
New York, New York. A Harlem street scene

Fulton fish market hooker, New York, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
New York, New York. Fulton fish market hooker. [Poster: 170 and one WaC (Womens Army Auxiliary Corps) Fulton Markets Men Serving Our Country ]

1940 Bedford MWD experimental truck. Creator: Unknown
1940 Bedford MWD experimental truck

1941 Bedford MWD war model. Creator: Unknown
1941 Bedford MWD war model

1940 Bedford MWD war model. Creator: Unknown
1940 Bedford MWD war model

1940 Bedford MWG war model. Creator: Unknown
1940 Bedford MWG war model

1940 Bedford MWT 15cwt gun tractor. Creator: Unknown
1940 Bedford MWT 15cwt gun tractor

1940 Bedford QLC war model. Creator: Unknown
1940 Bedford QLC war model

1942 Bedford MWD war model. Creator: Unknown
1942 Bedford MWD war model

1939 Bedford MWD lorry. Creator: Unknown
1939 Bedford MWD lorry

General Hap Arnold visits AERL, Cleveland, Ohio, November 9, 1944. V Creator: NASA
General Hap Arnold visits AERL, Cleveland, Ohio, November 9, 1944. Visit by General H. H. Arnold to the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

Instrumentation in B-29, 1944. Creator: NASA
Instrumentation in B-29, 1944. Recording high altitude flight data in a flying laboratory at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Cleveland

Lockheed XP-80 "Lulu Belle", 1943. Creator: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Germany and Great Britain went to war in 1939 with jet aircraft programs well underway, but the United States took longer to appreciate and develop the new technology

Continental Hyper I-1430-11, Inverted V-12 Engine, 1942
In 1932, the Army contracted with Continental for development of a cylinder with high specific power. Using the resulting Hyper No

Boeing-Stearman N2S-5 Kaydet, 1943. Creator: Boeing-Stearman
Biplane trainer, yellow. Over 10, 000 Stearman trainers were built by Boeings Wichita Division, which had purchased the Stearman Company in the late 1930s

Whittle W. 1X Turbojet Engine, 1941. Creator: Power Jets
Sir Frank Whittles jet aircraft engine was patented in 1932, and Power Jets, Ltd. formed in 1936. The Whittle Unit bench test engine first ran on April 12, 1937

Mitsubishi A6M5 Reisen (Zero Fighter) Model 52 ZEKE, 1943
Single-engine, low-wing fighter. No other aircraft surpasses the Mitsubishi A6M Reisen (" ree-sin, " Japanese for Zero Fighter) as the symbol of Japanese air power during World War II

Missile, Cruise, V-1 (Fi 103, FZG 76), ca. 1945. Creator: Gerhard Fieseler Werke GmbH
The V-1 (Vergeltungswaffe Eins, or Vengeance Weapon One), was the worlds first operational cruise missile. This name was given to it by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry

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