Machine Trades Educational History Posters & Prints

Machine Operator Poster
Many women worked as machine operators during World War II. This photo, circa 1942-43, was taken at Vultee Aircraft, Inc., in Vultee Field, California. The factory manufactured planes for the U.S. Army and Navy.

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Factory Life in 1898 Poster
The National Cash Register Company’s “Machinery Hall{ in Dayton, Ohio. The shop floor was a maze of belts.

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Planer Erecting Shop Poster
This photo shows workers building a large planer on an even larger planer. The plane being built was likely made for use at Watertown Arsenal located in Massachusetts.

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Watertown Arsenal Poster
Founded in 1816, in the Watertown, Massachusetts, Arsenal was greatly expanded in both World War I and II. In this photo, workers are hauling machine tool machines into place in preparation for setting up shop.

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Giant Gears Poster
The original caption for this photo read “Giant gears in a shop in Massachusetts will become parts of U.S. warships.” The photo was likely taken for the U.S. Office of Emergency Management, circa 1942.

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Colossal Turbine Wall Poster

“Business Goes All Out” was the caption on this 1942 photo of a giant Westinghouse turbine. The Office of War Information noted that the 150-ton turbine would generate 2,400,000 horsepower to run the machines that would produce material and equipment for the war effort.

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Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin

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Images of Labor -
A Sit-Down Striker

“Those machines had kept going as long as we could remember. When we finally pulled the switch and there was some quiet, I finally remembered something... that I was a human being, that I could stop those machines, that I was better than those machines anytime.”
- Sit-down Striker

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