Box 33

8x10 black and white photo. Caption reads: "She gives half her day to Uncle Sam and the other half to her home and family. Firing the furnace looks like a man-sized job, but Mrs. Snuda (?) has reduced it to a system. Note that short handled shovel to make

8x10 black and white photo. Caption reads: "Bacon rinds should be saved and melted down to recover the valuable greases they contain. Enormous amounts of glycerin for the making of explosives and other essential war materials are made from household fats

8x10 black and white photo of a group of men in a classroom, at Naval Air Station, Squantum, Massachusetts.

8x10 black and white photo. Caption reads: "Old hands and green hands back America's war production drive. An apprentice learning to operate a screw machine in a Midwest plant producing Diesel engines for the Navy".

8x10 black and white photo. Caption reads: "Any fats today? This Roanoke, VA, fourth grader collects waste fats from each house in his neighborhood and brings it to school every Saturday morning. The collected ingredient of fats are sent to the local rend

8x10 black and white photo. Caption reads: "He's still going strong at 72. George Cardy gave up what he considered a soft job, watchman on a yacht, to take up his old work of servicing marine engines in an eastern shipyard now turning out mine sweepers. '

8x10 black and white photo. Caption reads: "Back to aid his country's war effort is Phineas Davenport Allen, 78-year-old mechanic who worked on steering riggings for submarines during World War 1. Today he is employed by a New England company whose normal

8x10 black and white photo. Caption reads: "Apprentice training for the war program. Here is a student ordnance worker at an eastern arsenal".

8x10 black and white photo. Caption reads: "Women work side by side with men in the engineering department of North American Aviation, Inc. at Inglewood, Calif. The young woman pictured above traces complicated drawings of the thousands of parts that go into a modern fighting plane. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe."

8x10 black and white photo. Caption reads: "Mrs. Eva Smuda, 1942-style American mother, is up and out every morning before 6:45 am, ready to check in at the Frankford, PA. Arsenal. From 7am to 3pm, Mrs. Smuda tapers cartridge cases for 50-caliber machine