U.S. National Archives photos from the 1930s

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Silk skeins soaking in a solution of boiled water. This is done to free the silk of gum.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Tying the broken ends of a warp thread.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. The warp threads of the section that has just been wound on the frame have been cut

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. The completed warp. The operator is shown untying the sections of the warp from the winding frame.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Warp threads being wound off of the frame on to the beam.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. View of threads going from creel throug the reeds and over the roller. Note the use of reeds in bringing threads to coverge to a very narrow breadth as they go over the roller.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Redrawing: This operation is performed on the winding machine. In making the warp, thread is wound off the bobbins (the bobbins seen in the picture). The practice is to take bobbins from the creel with some yarn left on them. This leaves bobbins partially filled for

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. The harnesses shown here have been taken from the loom and hung up for purposes of brushing and straightening the "from" ends. This operations is preparatory to twisting.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Threading broken warp thread through the eyes of drop wires, preparatory to tying the broken ends. Drop wires are part of the stop motion system. A drop wire is placed on each thread of the rayon warp shown here. When a thread breaks, the wire drops, making a contact

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. The exhausted warp. The operator is preparing to remove the beam end harness in order to set the loom in operation again. The ends of a new warp must be entered through the harness or twisted on to the "from" ends remaining in the harness.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Weaver tying broken ends of warp thread from front of loom.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Weaver shown tying ends of broken warp threads. Note the needle in the weaver's hand and the position of the shuttle in the shuttle box.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Rayon yarn being wound from one bobbin on to another and being twisted.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Rayon yarn being wound from one bobbin to another and being twisted.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Weaver threading shuttle.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Two-room home, (kitchen below, bedroom above) of an old retired silk-worker, - in an inner-court on Beech St.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Rear tenement off Summer St. Former silk workers.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Unoccupied mill buildings on Straight Street.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Weaver tying ends of broken warp thread on backside of loom.

Photograph of Union and Confederate Veterans Shaking Hands Across the Stone Wall at the 1938 "Blue and Gray Reunion" at Gettysburg

Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany

Ranger (CV4). Aerial, port bow, aircraft on deck, 04/08/1938

Nitro (AE2). Ammunition ship. Port bow, at wharf

Nitro (AE2). Ammunition ship. Port bow, at wharf, 01/01/1938

Lexington. Aerial, port bow, aircraft on deck

Near Visalia Tulare County, California. Large-scale vineyard owned by absentee farm corporation.

Diesel Electric Tug US Gatun Motor and Generator Room Bottles and Fire Extinguishing System

The Panama Canal- Madden Dam- Spillway and Power Station January 1938

Diesel Electric Tug US Gatun Engine Room, Engine Room Auxiliaries

German troops parade through Warsaw, Poland

German troops parade through Warsaw, Poland, 09/1939

The "Graf Spee," scuttled off Montevideo

Enterprise (CV6). Aerial, starboard bow, underway, aircraft on deck, 04/12/1939

Enterprise (CV6). Aerial, starboard bow, underway, aircraft on deck

Indianapolis (heavy CA35). Aerial, starboard bow, underway

"Over 500 firemen and members of the London Auxiliary Fire Fighting Services, including many women, combined in a war exercise over the ground covered by Greenwich (London) Fire Station.", ca. 07/1939

West Virginia (BB48). Aerial, port bow, underway, 02/09/1939

The Panama Canal Balboa Annex Grade School Building No 804, Balboa, Canal Zone, December 14, 1939

The Panama Canal Dredging Division Activities Gatun Lake Section Gravel Plant View taken on 10-29-1939 of gravel screening and washing plant after its collapse which occurred on 10-27-1939

The Panama Canal- Colored School at La Boca, Canal Zone