Weekend, December 17-18, 2022 – HE PHOTOGRAPHED FACTORIES AND ALL OVER THE US DURING WWII
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WEEKEND, Dec. 17-18, 2022
THE 863rd EDITION
ALFRED PALMER
WORLD WAR 11 PHOTOGRAPHER
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Alfred T. Palmer (17 March 1906 – 31 January 1993)[1] was a photographer who is best known for his photographs depicting Americana during World War II,[2] as he became an Office of War Information photographer from 1942 until 1943.[3]
November 1942. “Grenade throwers. Ready to make a shipment of pineapples to Hitler, Hirohito & Co. An infantryman at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, holds a double handful of deadly grenades that may one day blast open a road to Berlin or Tokyo.” 4×5 acetate negative by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.
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Civilian defense. Much time is saved by the use of the teletype to spread important messages during air raids. Individual telephone calls to the various defense centers are unnecessary, since the teletype will present the information on paper to all centers simultaneously
Stars over Berlin and Tokyo will soon replace these factory lights reflected in the noses of planes at Douglas Aircraft’s Long Beach, Calif., plant HD-SN-99-02461.jpg
Stars over Berlin and Tokyo will soon replace these factory lights reflected in the noses of planes at Douglas Aircraft’s Long Beach, Calif., plant. Women workers groom lines of transparent noses for deadly A-20 attack bombers. October 1942. Alfred Palmer. (OWI)
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Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company’s plant, Long Beach, Calif. *Sand bags for protection against air raid form the background.
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Band saw operator cutting metal pipe in a Todd Shipyards machine shop
U.S. Marine Corps, bedding down a big barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C. 1a35182v.jpg
Title: U.S. Marine Corps, bedding down a big barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C.
Creator(s): Palmer, Alfred T., photographer Date Created/Published: 1942 May Medium: 1 transparency : color. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-fsac-1a35182 (digital file from original transparency) LC-USW361-1055 (color film copy slide) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LC-USW36-1055 <P&P> [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Section of the batch house at a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation1a35080v.jpg
Title: Section of the batch house at a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Toledo, Ohio. In the bins are stored the raw materials for the batch from which fiberglass materials vital to the war effort are produced
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Workers in the huge tank Chrysler arsenal near Detroit, putting the tracks on one of the giant M-3 tanks. These rolling arsenals weigh twenty-eight tons, are capable of speeds over twenty-five miles an hour and are equipped with 75 mm. field artillery gun and a 37 mm. anti-aircraft gun, as well as four mounted machine guns and various unmounted arms its crew may carry. The tanks are powered by 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind aviation engines.
A carpenter at the TVA’s new Douglas dam on the French Broad River, Tenn.1a35240v.jpg
Title: A carpenter at the TVA’s new Douglas dam on the French Broad River, Tenn. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet ong, with a 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
WEEKEND PHOTO OF THE DAY
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The Whispering Corner outside Oyster Bar
Grand Central Terminal, with Guastavino tiled ceiling
Matt Katz, Aron Eisenpreiss, Jay Jacobson, Andy Sparberg, Hara Reiser, Gloria Herman
from Jay Jabobson:
The whispering corner in Grand Central Terminal used to be a place where impecunious young men would go on a date. He would ask the young woman to stand in the whispering corner, and then he would go to the other corner to whisper his endearing sentiment. For some, it was a cost effective way of proposing marriage. For others, it was simply, “Let’s have dinner!” at the adjacent Oyster Bar!
Text by Judith Berdy
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