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Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Alternate title: Mission Atocuimi de Jororo. Title from photographer's inventory. Close view of geared wheels. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11834-55-F. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture o... More

Ruins Water Front, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins Water Front, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11834-64. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase;... More

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

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Ruins, Water Front, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins, Water Front, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11834-64. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase;... More

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Alternate title: Mission Atocuimi de Jororo. Title from photographer's inventory. Distant view of geared wheels. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11834-55-F. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture... More

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Picryl description: Public domain image of ruins, historic place, landmark, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Alternate title: Mission Atocuimi de Jororo. Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11834-64. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congres... More

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Alternate title: Mission Atocuimi de Jororo. Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11834-64. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congres... More

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Alternate title: Mission Atocuimi de Jororo. Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11834-64. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congres... More

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Picryl description: Public domain image of ruins, historic place, landmark, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ruins, Water Front, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins, Water Front, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ruined building, desolated landscape with ruins and stones, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Alternate title: Mission Atocuimi de Jororo. Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11834-64. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congres... More

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

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Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape with ruins, historical building, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ruins Water Front, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins Water Front, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

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Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Alternate title: Mission Atocuimi de Jororo. Title from photographer's inventory. Chimneys. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11834-55-F. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Librar... More

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Picryl description: Public domain image of historical building ruins, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Picryl description: Public domain image of ruins, historic place, landmark, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Alternate title: Mission Atocuimi de Jororo. Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11834-55-F. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congr... More

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Alternate title: Mission Atocuimi de Jororo. Title from photographer's inventory. View of geared wheels. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11834-55-F. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the ... More

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

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Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Alternate title: Mission Atocuimi de Jororo. Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11834-64. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congres... More

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Monastery, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Alternate title: Mission Atocuimi de Jororo. Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11834-64. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congres... More

Ruins Water Front, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins Water Front, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11834-64. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase;... More

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

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Ruins Water Front, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins Water Front, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

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A black and white photo of a group of people riding in the back of a truck - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people riding in the back of a t...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Together these three men have a total of 160 years of experience as skilled machinists. They are contributing this experience to the De Land, Florida production pool. Left to right: A.B. Kenyon, seventy, retired tool maker; William E. Mansfield, seventy-one, who made weapons and munitions for Winchester Arms in the first World War; and M.E. Carr, sixty-seven, owner of a plant which is sub-contracting aircraft work in the De Land pool

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Together these three men have a ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. A scene in the WAAC squad room in Daytona Beach, Florida where members gather during leisure periods on Saturday afternoon. The WAACs are using local hotels for their quarters

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. A scene in the WAAC squad room in Dayton...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These carefree high school students are learning the serious business of war production in a Daytona Beach, Florida vocational school located in a revamped nightclub. Instructor Gil Angell (with piston in his hand) is showing the group how to assemble an airplane engine. Left to right are Wilson, Flippo, Angell, Dewey Stewart, nineteen; Ken Kirkpatrick, eighteen; Bill Jackson and Ned Brown, eighteen. Jobs already are waiting for most of them when they finish their courses

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These carefree high school ...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-co...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are those above in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia County Vocational School. Left to right are Helen Cook, a former county courthouse clerk with a brother in the army; Ethel Chandler whose husband is an army lieutenant; Martha Adams, former nurse and now a housewife; Fannie Branum, housewife; Mabel McClintock, secretary and daughter of a retired army officer; and Patricia Blair, a housewife with a brother in the Air Corps

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Secretaries, housewives, wa...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Two grandmothers who are keeping up the production schedule of the La Roe's family shop at Eustis, Florida in processing vital parts for the De Land pool. At the left is Mrs. Ruby Laurence, Mr. La Roe's sister who came down from the north for a visit and stayed south to work on war production. At right is Mrs. La Roe

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Two grandmothers who are keeping up the pro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. A De Land, Florida fruit buyer and a carpenter, both over fifty, now doing aircraft welding which is passing army inspectors without a single rejection. Typical of the men of De Land who went into war production are John W. Smith, left, fifty-two, with five children and three granddaughters; and Lape Fridell, right, fifty-six, with three children. They are learning their new trade in the De Land welding school, before going to work in the De Land pool

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. A De Land, Florida fruit bu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. The ladies sewing circle has a grim meaning in De Land, Florida these days. Here's one of its daily sessions, sewing fabric on airplane wings they hope will be flying over Germany some day soon. Nearest the camera is Joyce Newsom, instructor in De Land's vocational school, giving lessons in the new art of sewing to two grandmothers. Left is Mrs. Gussie Ryals, who has an invalid husband and five grandchildren. Right is Mrs. Ruth Klug, whose husband fought through the first World War, who has two grandchildren, and a boy in a bombing squadron in Australia. Both grandmothers soon will take their places on the assembly line of an aircraft factory

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. The ladies sewing circle has a...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Land industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Lan...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Important workers in the DeLand, Florida, industrial pool. R.G. Campbell, foundry foreman, and his Negro helper, Arthur Brown, who used to work in an orange grove, draw the homemade crucible, filled with molten metal, out of the tiny blast furnace improvised from old equipment by J.L. Clayton, city fireman at Daytona Beach

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Important workers in t...

Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Joe Wheeler Miller of De Land, Florida is doing his part in making machinery that will keep American fighting planes in the air. He was named after a southern general, Joe Wheeler, by a father who thought the General was "the fightinest man he knew" and wanted his son to be likewise. He ran a fishing tackle business that went out with priorities. Although he never had an arc welding holder in his hands before entering the De Land vocational school, he and another similarly trained man have acquired speed that has doubled the Babcock production

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Joe Wheeler Miller of De Land, F...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe and his wife, of Eustis, Louisiana, solved one of the De Land industrial pool's most difficult problems by subcontracting part of a war order in their garage workshop. Mr. La Roe helps his wife in the operation of cutting worm gears on their machine

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe and his wi...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Joe Wheeler Miller of De Land, Florida is doing his part in making machinery that will keep American fighting planes in the air. He was named after a southern general, Joe Wheeler, by a father who thought the General was "the fightinest man he knew" and wanted his son to be likewise. He ran a fishing tackle business that went out with priorities. Although he never had an arc welding holder in his hands before entering the De Land vocational school, he and another similarly trained man have acquired speed that has doubled the Babcock production

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Joe Wheeler Miller of De Land, F...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Molten aluminum spills like quicksilver from this homemade bucket-sized ladle and pours white-hot into a mold to cast experimental parts for bombers in Clayton's foundry at Daytona Beach, Florida. Foundry foreman R.G. Campbell watches the color of the pour from the left. J.L. Clayton, city fireman, who built the foundry as a hobby, is pouring with the aid of his Negro helper

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Molten aluminum spills...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe, commander-in-chief of the La Roe family war production army at Eustis, Florida, used to be an automobile mechanic. He came from Akron, Ohio in 1920. He is drilling a much needed gear for the De Land community pool's million-dollar war contract. Eight machines work at full speed in his three-car-garage; all of them operated by his wife, sister, both grandmothers, his son, and one helper

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe, commander...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Sixty-year-old George Lane, former house painter, is a valuable worker in the De Land, Florida pool. He served in the last war with the British Army from Vimy Ridge to the Occupation. Two of his sons are in the American Army, one with the Air Corps in Australia. His daughter volunteered for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corp. Seven of his nephews are in the British Army. Using his old skill with the brush, he is now painting De Land pool products

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Sixty-year-old George Lane, former ho...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Charging the aluminum furnace in the improvised foundry built at Daytona Beach, Florida, by city fireman J.L. Clayton. Old auto crankcases, pots, pans--any solid form of aluminum--is dropped into the homemade crucible for remelting and casting into experimental parts for bombers, air raid sirens, and many vital parts for the DeLand industrial pool

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Charging the aluminum ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Instructor Gil Angell shows Ernest Williams, high school student, how to install a cylinder on an aircraft engine in the Daytona Beach, Florida Vocational School that is turning out hundreds of workers for Florida's war production program

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Instructor Gil Angell shows...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-co...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

De Land pool. Bits and parts. With a "know-how" skill developed in thirty-two years experience as a machinist, Fred W. Casey, sub-contractor in the De Land, Florida pool, bends over a heavy lathe as it machines a part for the nation's war machine. Fifty-two-year-old Casey, like many machinists who retired to Florida, chuckles at the idea that machinists in the deep South cannot work to close tolerances

De Land pool. Bits and parts. With a "know-how" skill developed in thi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Land industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Lan...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. A De Land, Florida fruit buyer and a carpenter, both over fifty, now doing aircraft welding which is passing army inspectors without a single rejection. Typical of the men of De Land who went into war production are John W. Smith, left, fifty-two, with five children and three granddaughters; and Lape Fridell, right, fifty-six, with three children. They are learning their new trade in the De Land welding school, before going to work in the De Land pool

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. A De Land, Florida fruit bu...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women are being trained along with men in the Volusia County Florida Vocational School to take their places on the war production front. Susie Nelson, left, has a husband in Panama and a brother in the Navy. Pearl Kinchem, right, is a housewife with a brother in the army. Soon both of them will be welding aircraft in the De Land industrial pool

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women are being trained alo...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Clyde Williams, instructor in the Volusia County, Florida Vocational School, believes women make just as good welders as men. He is shown here with a new class starting in aircraft welding, part of the training program of the De Land pool to provide workers for war production. Left to right are Jane Parker, whose husband already is a war welder and plans to volunteer for the Navy when she can take his place; Kathleen Nowlin, stenographer, an English girl who is a naturalized American citizen; and Sybil Meyers, a housewife

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Clyde Williams, instructor ...

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De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Eleanor Lane was a widow supporting her two children as an interior decorator. When her hometown of De Land, Florida pooled its manpower and machines to go into war work, she gave up her business and went along. She is shown learning aircraft fabric work in the vocational school set up to train workers for the war plant

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Eleanor Lane was a widow ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe family of Eustis, Florida, after a day's work for the De Land pool. Left is Mrs. La Roe with her two-year-old granddaughter, next is four-year-old Eugene, Clarence La Roe's son, and Mr. La Roe

De Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe family of Eustis, Florida, after...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. A new kind of air raid siren is resulting from a fireman's curiosity about aluminum. City fireman J.L. Clayton of Daytona Beach, Florida, became interested in metals and put up a one-man foundry for a hobby in the rear of the fire station. Today he is molding aluminum air raid sirens in a rapidly expanding foundry and is handling molded aircraft parts for the DeLand, Florida, industrial pool. R.G. Campbell, Jr., foreman of the shop; Lewis Pollity, formerly an electrician, and Clayton examine a newly-cast siren "blade"

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. A new kind of air raid...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

De Land pool. Moving circus. Even circuses made way for war in Florida. When the De Land, Florida industrial pool found it lacked buildings to fulfill a million-dollar war contract, it asked the Johnny J. Jones circus to move out of its winter quarters at the county fairgrounds so that the fair's seventeen-foot buildings could be used as a war plant. Within a few weeks, war production machines of sixteen different companies pooled into one community assembly line and began pounding out weapons beneath the gay circus banners on the domed buildings in the background

De Land pool. Moving circus. Even circuses made way for war in Florida...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These two Daytona Beach, Florida housewives talk war work and welding like their grandmothers talked about the weekly quilting society, as they learn to take their places on a war production line in the Volusia County Vocational School. Mrs. Nancy H. Herbert, left, has a son in the Navy. Mrs. Anna E. Larrabee, right, is a grandmother who has one son in the Navy, a second in the Marines, a third in the Canal Zone as a war worker, and a fourth son who is now an aviation mechanic

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These two Daytona Beach, Fl...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These carefree high school students are learning the serious business of war production in a Daytona Beach, Florida vocational school located in a revamped nightclub. Instructor Gil Angell (with piston in his hand) is showing the group how to assemble an airplane engine. Left to right are Wilson, Flippo, Angell, Dewey Stewart, nineteen; Ken Kirkpatrick, eighteen; Bill Jackson and Ned Brown, eighteen. Jobs already are waiting for most of them when they finish their courses

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These carefree high school ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAACs at Daytona Beach, Florida, learn how to rescue floats. The float is made of wooden platform supported by inflated barracks tied beneath the platform. Careful swimming enables the rescuers to tow the victim to safety

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAACs at Daytona Beach, Florida, learn h...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Making a part for the new type of air raid siren he invented. Several years ago, city fireman J.L. Clayton of Daytona Beach, Florida, became interested in melting alloys and built a hobby foundry in back of the fire station where he spent his spare time. Now it has grown into a three-man foundry at the edge of town, and he is turning out experimental parts for bombers, vital pieces for the DeLand industrial pool, and air raid sirens of aluminum and brass

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Making a part for the ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. The WAACs awaken with hearty appetites in their Florida training center and waste no time lining up for breakfast in the Osceola Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida, which has been taken over to serve as quarters for them

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. The WAACs awaken with hearty appetites i...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. This is the blast division of city fireman J.L. Clayton's three-man foundry at Daytona Beach, Florida. It is turning out precision parts for experimental bombers. In the foreground is the blast furnace, in the background the junk heap of brass and aluminum scrap from which come the metals to charge the crucible. Arthur Brown, Negro helper, used to work in an orange grove until Clayton taught him how to handle molten metals

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. This is the blast divi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Negative has a tape mask. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division.... More

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Interior of the Babcock plant at De Land, Florida. When the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor, this was a dormant airplane plant. It was revived as a community project. Businessmen of De Land pooled their machines and resources, used this plant as a prime contractor to obtain war work, and now are producing over two-million dollars worth of war equipment in it. These motor repair racks, being turned out on a production schedule engineers termed "impossible" two months ago, are being built by former clerks, auto-mechanics and small shop operators who were caught by the impact of the war on their peacetime businesses

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Interior of the Babcock plant at...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Ken Kirkpatrick, eighteen, of Daytona, is typical of the hundreds of Volusia County youngsters who are preparing to take their places on Florida's production front. Enrolled in the Daytona Beach Vocational School, he's learning the watchmaker's precision necessary to keep army airplane engines ready for combat

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Ken Kirkpatrick, eighteen, ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Before the war, Florida was regarded as a tourist playground without machines or men capable of war production. Since Pearl Harbor, along the highways and byways of the state, precision machinery is daily being discovered in small shops like this, which are producing close-tolerance work for the De Land pool

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Before the war, Florida was regarded ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

De Land pool. Bits and parts. The members of the De Land, Florida pool solved their welding problem on their first war contract with typical American ingenuity. F.W. Casey had to have a welding generator and couldn't buy one. So he took an old Overland chassis, mounted a Dodge motor on it, attached a Studebaker radiator, and connected a second-hand generator to the engine. The outfit performs with the same efficiency as a five hundred dollar factory job

De Land pool. Bits and parts. The members of the De Land, Florida pool...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-co...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-co...

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Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. A scene in the WAAC squad room in Daytona Beach, Florida where members gather during leisure periods on Saturday afternoon. The WAACs are using local hotels for their quarters

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. A scene in the WAAC squad room in Dayton...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. People from every walk of life are taking part in the De Land, Florida Vocational School as they learn war trades. Above is Mrs. Mary Owens, a housewife with three children who now is training others to be aircraft welders. With him is chief instructor Glen W. Snyder

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. People from every walk of l...

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De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Land industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Lan...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Instructor Gil Angell shows Ernest Williams, high school student, how to install a cylinder on an aircraft engine in the Daytona Beach, Florida Vocational School that is turning out hundreds of workers for Florida's war production program

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Instructor Gil Angell shows...

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Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Third Officer Alice L. Kidwell, Saint Cloude, Minnesota, wearing the winter olive drab uniform of the WAACs

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Third Officer Alice L. Kidwell, Saint Cl...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-co...

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. Two grandmothers who are keeping up the production schedule of the La Roe's family shop at Eustis, Florida in processing vital parts for the De Land pool. At the left is Mrs. Ruby Laurence, Mr. La Roe's sister who came down from the north for a visit and stayed south to work on war production. At right is Mrs. La Roe

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Two grandmothers who are keeping up the pro...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Daytona Beach, Florida high school students are making a record among the vocational schools of the state in the speed with which they are picking up the mechanics of repairing airplane motors. Dewey Stewart, nineteen, is checking the valve adjustment on a Wright J-5 in the motor room of the Volusia County Vocational School, operating on the dance floor of a revamped nightclub

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Daytona Beach, Florida high...

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DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Making a part for the new type of air raid siren he invented. Several years ago, city fireman J.L. Clayton of Daytona Beach, Florida, became interested in melting alloys and built a hobby foundry in back of the fire station where he spent his spare time. Now it has grown into a three-man foundry at the edge of town, and he is turning out experimental parts for bombers, vital pieces for the DeLand industrial pool, and air raid sirens of aluminum and brass

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Making a part for the ...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-co...

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DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. The "pour" in a foundry at Daytona Beach, Florida, designed by city fireman J.L. Clayton. R.G. Campbell, foundry foreman, left, is controlling the homemade ladle. Arthur Brown, Negro helper from an orange grove, guides the crucible, while Lewis Pillitz, formerly an electrician, helps on his end. The molds are for air raid sirens of Clayton's own design

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. The "pour" in a foundr...

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Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAAC motor convoy group takes refresher course before taking up instruction duties. In double file the trucks roll along the hard packed sands of Daytona Beach, Florida

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAAC motor convoy group takes refresher ...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Workers in Florida's war production pools come from all walks and ways of life. Painter on the De Land war contract is Curtis Yelvington, forty-five, born and reared in De Land. He has one son in the coast artillery and another in the Navy, both volunteers. He says, "We are doing everything in our power to help win this war." In the last war, Yelvington tried to enlist three times and finally made it - the day before the armistice was signed

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Workers in Florida's war production p...

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De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Land industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Lan...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-co...

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De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Alene Green of De Land, Florida, with two sons in the Army and one in the Navy, still felt she wasn't doing enough. So she enrolled in the De Land Vocational School to learn how to put fabric on airplane wings. Within a month she'll be on the assembly line of the Babcock plant, prime contractors for De Land's community industrial pool

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Alene Green of De Land, F...

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De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. These steel sleeves, machined to perfection, soon will be part of aircraft repair assemblies, a portion of the Carr shop's contribution to the De Land, Florida pool contract

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. These steel sleeves, machined to pe...

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De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. C.L. Purcell and his wife had a pretty hard struggle making ends meet these past few years until he went through the defense trade school at Ocala, Florida. Now he is a qualified machinist and welder and can handle most any job in the Carr plant, a key-subcontractor in the DeLand, Florida pool

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. C.L. Purcell and his wife had a pre...

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De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Land industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Lan...

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Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAAC motor convoy group takes refresher course before taking up instruction duties. In double file the trucks roll along the hard packed sands of Daytona Beach, Florida

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAAC motor convoy group takes refresher ...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Ben Stephens tramped six miles into De Land, Florida three times a week last fall to attend the city's vocational school, established to provide workers for the community war-production pool. He welds, runs an acetylene cutting machine, and doubles in brass on woodworking and the assembly line in the Babcock plant, prime contractors of the pool. He plans to put his sixty-five-year-old father on the job as his helper when he is fully trained. Stephens, forty-four and a veteran of the last war, was one of eighteen machinists uncovered by a manpower survey of the community

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Ben Stephens tramped six miles into D...

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DeLand pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop, down by the railroad tracks in De Land, Florida, is one of the strongest members of the Volusia County pool, now starting on its third million-dollars worth of war production without a single rejection. F.W. Casey, owner of the shop, looks over some of the miscellaneous items in his yard from which he makes many of the machines he uses. He's inspecting a woodworking machine with an eye to the pool's next contract. An old dough mixer at the right of the window will supply some parts for the next job

DeLand pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop, down by the railroa...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Lewis Long, Jr., of Lake Helen, Florida, worked in the county courthouse before Pearl Harbor with a wife and baby to support. Now he's deep in the war effort, welding aircraft. He is shown going through the De Land Vocational School. Opposite him is Mrs. Mary Owens, housewife and mother of three children, who developed into a first class aircraft welder in the school

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Lewis Long, Jr., of Lake He...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Clyde Williams, instructor in the Volusia County, Florida Vocational School, believes women make just as good welders as men. He is shown here with a new class starting in aircraft welding, part of the training program of the De Land pool to provide workers for war production. Left to right are Jane Parker, whose husband already is a war welder and plans to volunteer for the Navy when she can take his place; Kathleen Nowlin, stenographer, an English girl who is a naturalized American citizen; and Sybil Meyers, a housewife

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Clyde Williams, instructor ...

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DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. City fireman J.L. Clayton of Daytona Beach, Florida, turned curiosity into war production. Several years ago he became interested in molding metals, particularly brass and aluminum in his spare time and put up a one-man foundry in back of the fire station as a hobby. Now he's making cast parts for the DeLand industrial pool and turning out aluminum air raid sirens of his own invention. Clayton is pulling a newly-cast siren section out of the mold. With him is R.G. Campbell, Jr., foreman of his expanded hobby shop

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. City fireman J.L. Clay...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These two Daytona Beach, Florida housewives talk war work and welding like their grandmothers talked about the weekly quilting society, as they learn to take their places on a war production line in the Volusia County Vocational School. Mrs. Nancy H. Herbert, left, has a son in the Navy. Mrs. Anna E. Larrabee, right, is a grandmother who has one son in the Navy, a second in the Marines, a third in the Canal Zone as a war worker, and a fourth son who is now an aviation mechanic

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These two Daytona Beach, Fl...

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe and his wife, of Eustis, Louisiana, solved one of the De Land industrial pool's most difficult problems by subcontracting part of a war order in their garage workshop. Mr. La Roe helps his wife in the operation of cutting worm gears on their machine

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe and his wi...

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De Land pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop in De Land, Florida doesn't have fluorescent lighting or air conditioning, but it does have the close tolerance machinery needed to make war weapons. Casey and his one-man crew are shown here as they turn out repair racks for airplanes

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop in De Land, Florida...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Can southern workers do close-tolerance machine work? Ask A.E. Kenyon, pictured above as he operates a machine turning out war material for the De Land, Florida pool. He's been a toolmaker since 1895 in some of the biggest plants in the country. He retired to Florida and came back into industry to help out in the war. There are a dozen men like him in the plants of the De Land pool

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Can southern workers do close-toleran...

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De Land pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop in De Land, Florida doesn't have fluorescent lighting or air conditioning, but it does have the close tolerance machinery needed to make war weapons. Casey and his one-man crew are shown here as they turn out repair racks for airplanes

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop in De Land, Florida...

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Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Twenty-one WAAC Third Officers lin0d up at edge of the swimming pool in regulation winter uniforms. These girls, having passed Red Cross water safety tests will instruct recruits to be trained at the second WAAC training center in Daytona Beach, Florida

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Twenty-one WAAC Third Officers lin0d up ...

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