Sophie expressing gratefulness for making it through Port Royal and notes the Admiral's skill in handling the fleet. Sophie also says she is "overwhelmed" with notes of congratulations
Text from image: "I need your skill in a War Job! If you know one of these trades and are not in real war work, you are badly needed: Airplane Skin Man; Airplane Subassembler; Ammunition Inspector; Assembler, Ship; Bench Hand, Metal Work; Bus...
on front of card: "What is Roadside America? Who enters here will be taken by surprises! Be prepared to see more than you expect! You will be amazed at Roadside America's beauty and mechanical skill. Over 50 years in the making by our family. You...
Theres skill in his fingertips. And fortunately it is put to good purpose for Michael Kenney, Ford Motor Companys tool and die worker is picking a lock. His is equally a home repairing cameras, taking care of hospital equipment or making special...
Although the tiny part in this veteran’s mike looks insignificant, its variation from perfection may mean a jammed gun, faulty landing gear, a stalled engine. This machinist in a large western aircraft plant has had 23 years of experience....
A typical group of Reading anthracite miners waiting to go on duty at the Alaska Colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company near Mount Caramel PA. Most of them are of the second and third generation of miners in PAs anthracite...
Text from image: "To the Fireman: The Man With The Shovel controls the wise use of Coal. The Country needs his skill to prevent waste of fuel reqired to keep us warm and to turn the wheels of industry that shall command Victory."
Correspondence regarding the health and well being of the Smith family. Smith also discusses the level of skill to be found in the Philadelphia area regarding painting restoration.
Complex chemical operations in the large tetraethyl lead unit at DuPont's Antioch, California plant are handled from a central control room. At operators' fingertips are 200 finely calibrated instruments that keep in balance the process that turn...
The glass blower is indispensable to the modern research lab. At the Experimental Station located near Wilmington, Delaware a glass blower's shop is maintained where special apparatus necessary for research is fashioned. Some of the pieces...
This photograph illustrates the wide variety of training and skill necessary to carry out research efficiently on the large scale on which it is conducted at DuPont's Experimental Station. Many specialists, in addition to research chemists,...
Some perfumes are compounded from as many as sixty ingredients. The number of items in a compounding laboratory many reach into thousands. The young woman shown here is not only an expert on which of these items can be used successfully for...
Threading-up a spinning machine at a rayon yarn plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. After removing a freshly spun cake of yarn from the spinning bucket, production is resumed by using a stream of water from the cup in the operator's hand to...
Threading-up a spinning machine at a rayon yarn plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. After removing a freshly spun cake of yarn from the spinning bucket, production is resumed by using a stream of water from the cup in the operator's hand to...
Threading-up a spinning machine at a rayon yarn plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. After removing a freshly spun cake of yarn from the spinning bucket, production is resumed by using a stream of water from the cup in the operator's hand to...
on front of card: "What is Roadside America? Who enters here will be taken by surprises! Be prepared to see more than you expect! You will be amazed at Roadside America's beauty and mechanical skill. Over 50 years in the making by our family. ...
