Huge drop hammers work day and night forming sheet metal parts for United Nations bombers and fighters at the North American Aviation, Inc., plant, Inglewood, Calif. The heavy hemp rope is used to snub the hammer so that it forms the part under proper pressure and rises clear of the work after each
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- Date
- 1942
- Photographer / author
- Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 9,083 × 7,316 pixels
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"Huge drop hammers work day and night forming sheet metal parts for United Nations bombers and fighters at the North American Aviation, Inc., plant, Inglewood, Calif. The heavy hemp rope is used to snub the hammer so that it forms the part under proper pressure and rises clear of the work after each" (1942). Palmer, Alfred T., photographer. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huge_drop_hammers_work_day_and_night_forming_sheet_metal_parts_for_United_Nations_bombers_and_fighters_at_the_North_American_Aviation,_Inc.,_plant,_Inglewood,_Calif._The_heavy_hemp_rope_is_LCCN2017878521.tifNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 120579.
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