These camshafts form an interesting pattern as they emerge from the automatic grinders at the Rouge pant of the Ford Motor Company, They are fashioned with jewelers precision, maximum tolerance being one half of one thousandths of an inch. More...
Hulett ore unloaders pick up 17 tons at a time-battery of four hoists at Pennsylvania Railroad docks in Cleveland relieve a big steamship of its cargo almost as quickly as a truck driver gets rid of a load of coal. Four moths almost as wide as a...
Collection guide for the Raymond Loewy archives. Loewy (1893-1986) was one of the most influential industrial designers of the twentieth century. During a career of five decades, Loewy produced ubiquitous designs for a wide range of cars, household...
Refining of crude alcohol, represented by the two bottles on the bottom step, at the Belle WV plant of the DuPont Company's Polychemicals Department, produces five intermediate alcohols, represented by bottles on the second step, and finally the...
DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant was completed in 1951 as part of a five year, $550 million program of plant expansion to provide facilities which were deferred during World War II. Operated by the Polychemicals Department, the plant provides a...
Coffee Hosts and Hostesses from surrounding New Castle County Wawa stores were celebrated during the event with a special toast, jackets and aprons. The "brewmasters" are known for spreading warmth and good cheer every morning to more than a...
Armco Steel Corporation, Ashland, Kentucky, Five stand, four high tandem cold rolling finish mill for coils up to 62 inches wide and ranging in thicknesses from .014 through .10 inches
The sales psychology of the self service package is demonstrated by this series of five cakes being shown by the Film Department of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. From the virtually blank package at the upper left, which draws a blank reaction...
Caption text on photo: "New automatic controls for basic research tools permit DuPont operator to run twelve stills at once instead of the customary four or five. This equipment is in the Plastics Department laboratory at DuPont's Experimental...
Caption: "Huge elevators, known as "Cages" carry mine cars loaded with anthracite from the mine depths to the surface and return the empty cars to be reloaded. The "cages" serve five, six or seven levels in the mine--corresponding to floors of a...
Text from back of image: "Additional spectacular experiments in freak and contact…were made the other day when Lawrence B. Sperry, former lieutenant in the aviation service, attached steel runners to his plane and, with two skiers 'hitching on...
Text from back of image: "Five persons were killed and five seriously injured when this Pan-American Grace airliner San Pedro, plunged into the shallow waters of Lake Mar Chiquita, in the Argentine republic recently. By a strange coincidence the...
Route 741, one mile east of Strasburg; Date built: c.1882; On back: East Strausberg at train time is a scene not duplicated anywhere in America today. Here the sixty year old train with is open platform wooden coaches pulls into the wonderful world...
Pencoyd Iron Works, Pencoyd, Pennsylvania Manufacture of bridge and building structural steel by the open hearth process. A pair of large electric gantry drilling machines, each carrying eight drills of five foot radius
written on back of print: "Studebaker Development - 1947" stamped on back of print: "Design Credit Raymond Loewy Associates 488 Madison Avenue New York 22, New York" sticker on back of print: "Quarter-size clay model of postwar automobile, a...
