California shipyard workers. Thousands of workers bound for the Richmond shipyards in San Francisco's East bay area leave the ferry and cross the ramp leading to the yards, February 1943
Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Prior to the conversion of a
Chicago piano factory to the manufacture of parts for trainer planes,
Lorraine Avezzano operated this boring machine to prepare piano
keyboards for further assembly. Today she uses the same machine to
process connecting rods for trainer-plane motors. More than 1,000 of
these rods pass through her hands each day. Gulbransen Company. July 1942
Handicapped workers. Despite physical handicaps, these women are
doing work that's vital to Uncle Sam's war effort. At the Maryland
League for Crippled Children, they're hand-burring Y's for airplane
engines, on subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. White
Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland. August 1942
Mrs. Evelyn Hauser, Red Cross nurse, prepares a volunteer blood
donor at San Quentin for his donation. During the Red Cross mobile
unit's visit to the penitentiary, 150 prisoners gave blood and more than
twice that number volunteered but were unable to give to the bank
because of lack of time and equipment. ca. 1943
Coffee and cakes taste pretty good to these San Quentin prisoners
who have just given blood to the Red Cross mobile unit. Of the hundreds
of men who volunteered to give blood to the bank, 150 were taken care of
during the unit's four-hour visit to the penitentiary. Warden Clinton
T. Duffy, who encourages such activities at the prison, chats with
several Red Cross workers. ca. 1943
Women in war. Agricultural workers. With the nation's manpower
swelling the ranks of the armed forces, women must step into many new
occupations in both urban and rural life. These women harvest hands in
Rochelle, Illinois, are helping the national welfare by picking the
summer asparagus crop. September 1942
