2009-03-02
Yellow B-25
Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer
Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kansas.
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Carpenter
Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer
Title: Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam Tennessee (TVA)
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Crane operator
Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer
Title: Crane operator at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tennessee.
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Converter
Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer
Title: Bessemer converter (iron into steel), Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, PA.
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Cowling
Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer
Title: Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Ingledwood, Calif., plant
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Gas Welding
Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer
Title: Gas welding a joint in a line of spiral pipe at the TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River, Tenn. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with 31.600-acre reservoir area extending 43 miles upstream With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,000 acre-feet, this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kw. of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kw. in the average year.
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Generator
Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer
Title: Generator works at the winding of a generator stator in a new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam, Sheffield vicinity, Ala. Located 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kw., which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kw. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River System.
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Glass House
Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer
Title: This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long, Beach, Calif. She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. Better known as the "Flying Fortress, the B-17F is a later model of the B-17 which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men, and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions.
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Smelting furnace
Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer
Title: Large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama.
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Telephone lines
Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer
Title: Men working on telephone lines, probably near a TVA dam hydroelectric plant.
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Corrected title devised by Library staff from information provided by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008.
Original title from FSA or OWI agency caption: Electric power transmissions lines from a TVA dam's hydroelectric plant.
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Women
Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer
Title: Two women workers are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes into the manufacture of the "Vengeance" (A-31) dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the R.A.F. 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.
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Truck driver
Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer
Title: Truck driver at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tennessee.
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