Russell Lee: One of the troubles with the Harper hay chopper is the difficulty of moving the stationary machine. Box Elder County, Utah
2018
Acrylic on canvas
50 × 70 cm
Alfred T. Palmer: Conversion. Automobile plant. Assembling oil distribution pipes to back shaft, flywheel, and clutch mechanism bearings of a huge 90T96 Cleveland press being relocated to perform a major operation on hood panels for 4 x 4 army trucks. The 120-ton machine was moved piece by piece from another plant that is being completely dismantled for conversion to other war production. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan
2018
Acrylic on canvas
100 × 80 cm
Edward Gruber: Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands and this machine used to turn out merry-go-rounds to gladden the hearts of the nation’s children. The carrousel plant in which they work is now engaged in producing war parts on subcontracts from army and navy contractors. While a plant officer looks on, machinist Arthur Greaces operates a Bickford vertical boring machine formerly used in the production of merry-go-rounds, now used for war work. He is machining a sheaf ordered as part of a sub-contract on maritime work. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York
2018
Acrylic on canvas
100 × 80 cm
Jack Delano: Nashville, Tennessee. Women operating a giant stamping machine. Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant
2018
Acrylic on canvas
100 × 80 cm
Russell Lee: Lidding machine used in packing vegetables. Elsa, Texas
2018
Acrylic on canvas
80 × 80 cm
Alfred T. Palmer: Conversion. Automobile industry. This special-purpose multiple drill formerly used in assembly of automobile parts, cannot readily be converted to war production. Unless some specific wartime use is found for it, the machine will be stored for the duration. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan
2018
Acrylic on canvas
100 × 80 cm
Arthur Rothstein: Johnnie Sheffels with his toy tractor and seed drill. Cascade County, Montana
2018
Acrylic on canvas
100 × 80 cm
Arthur Rothstein: Mrs. Alfred Peterson, wife of tenant purchaser borrower, with preserved food. Mesa County, Colorado
2018
Acrylic on canvas
130 × 100 cm
William Perlitch: High school Victory Corps. Bill Brady is one of many students at Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland who are helping to relieve the manpower shortage in his community. He attends school in the morning, works at a local machine shop in the afternoon. His employment is part of the school directed program originally designed to provide work experience for the students
2019
Acrylic on canvas
100 × 80 cm
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Machining the “skeleton” of a waterwheel generator at the East Pittsburgh Works of the Westinghouse electric and manufacturing company for the Watts Bar project of the Tennessee valley authority project which will supply power to aluminum, aircraft, and other war-busy industrial plants in that area
2019
Acrylic on canvas
Alfred T. Palmer: Production. A-31 (“Vengeance”) dive bombers. Layout for control rods. One of the women employees at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. is pictured inside a tail cone which will be incorporated in a Vultee “Vengeance” dive bomber. She is checking the layout for control rods. The “Vengeance” (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers
2019
Acrylic on canvas
70 × 50 cm
Alfred T. Palmer: Drying at top speed. Reeled away from the calendaring machine, the fresh stock rolls over towering drying racks shown here. Weighted tension bars keep the festooned sheet of new fabric taut and straight as it cools and dries. From the drying racks, the fabric travels quickly onto rolls of cloth where it is rolled onto reels small enough to handle. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio
2019
Acrylic on canvas
70 × 50 cm
Alfred T. Palmer: Conversion.Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. The hands that rocks the cradle can also rock the Axis. American women are rapidly taking their places on the industrial front. Here in this small Midwest factory, the owner’s wife operates one of the machines making dies for incendiary bombs. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio
2019
Acrylic on canvas
70 × 50 cm
Alfred T. Palmer: Subcontracting. Bogie-wheel assembly. Facing, counterboring and milling operations are performed on bogie-wheel levers in the machine shop of an Eastern subcontractor. Painesville Machine Company
2019
Acrylic on canvas
160 × 130 cm
Alfred T. Palmer: Conversion. Automobile industry. Preparing a huge automobile production machine for temporary storage, maintenance man cleans up the machine prior to conversion to war production. The Plymouth Company, Chrylser Corporation, Detroit, Michigan
2019
Acrylic on canvas
130 × 100 cm
Ann Rosener: Safe clothes for women war workers. Safely and becomingly dressed in her washable denim uniform, Eunice Kimball operates a horizontal milling machine at the Bendix Aviation Plant, turning out essential parts for the armed forces with no danger of accident from a dangling necklace, a loose wisp of hair, or trousers baggy at the ankle. Bendix Aviation Plant, Brooklyn, New York
2019
Acrylic on canvas
100 × 80 cm
Arthur Rothstein: Machine for piling sugar beets at railroad. Adams County, Colorado
2019
Acrylic on canvas
100 × 80 cm
Alfred T. Palmer: Chrysler tank arsenal. This is one of the huge machine tools used in production of the M-3 tanks, the twenty-eight ton monsters built at the Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. This press works with a power of 450 tons, stamping out quarter inch steel floor plates
2019
Acrylic on canvas
100 × 80 cm
Alfred T. Palmer: A special automatic machine in a converted cash register factory handles the operations of countercoring, disc inserting, crimping and unloading 20mm fuses. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio
2019
Acrylic on canvas
100 × 80 cm
Andreas Feininger: Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A Kellar machine duplicating a die for the making of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber parts at the Boeing plant in Seattle. This machine makes production dies, using plaster patterns as models. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine, heavy bomber capable of flying high altitudes
2019
Acrylic on canvas
130 × 100 cm
John Vachon: Operating linotype machine. Office of the Valley News. Browns Valley, Minnesota
2019
Acrylic on canvas
130 × 100 cm