alexanderplatz
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Many firearms enthusiasts are interested in history and so I think many of you will appreciate the resources made online by our nation's Library of Congress at the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. You can search for a wide variety of subjects and the depth of the available collection is impressive. Some pics are even available in high-resolution digital format, although this is the exception rather than the rule. And, it's all free. (Well, your taxes paid for it.)
For example, here are some nice pics that I found by searching for "Garand," "Springfield Armory" and some other related search terms. I have copied the captions as they appear online:
From brown Bess to the Chicago typewriter. Part of the collection of small arms at an eastern armory, where a long tradition of gun-making is being brought to bear in the war program
Putting them together. A corner of the assembly room at an armory, where war workers are putting together the parts which make up a Garand rifle
Garand rifles being packed for shipment to troops in training
Tough steel for a tough job. It takes tough steel to stand up in a Garand rifle. Here workmen are testing the hardness of steel at an eastern armory, a center of war work
Study in concentration. Apprentice at an eastern arsenal, operates an engine lathe under the watchful eye of an instructor. Many such study operators are being trained for the war program
Out of the rough. A gun stock takes shape under the hands of a skilled workman as the war production goes ahead at an eastern armory
Frankfort, Kentucky. Eleanore Bennet, age twenty-five, feeding a stamp press with thirty-seven millimeters cartridge cases at the Frankfort arsenal
Organ of death. "This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling, like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms." So wrote Longfellow in his poem, after seeing this stack of 1862 rifles. Now in another emergency the eastern armory again turns out guns for the war
Invention for defense. John C. Garand, inventor of the Army's semi-automatic rifle, at work in his model shop
The man behind the gun. John C. Garand, inventor of the semi-automatic rifle now being turned out in large quantities under the war program, looks over one of the guns
For example, here are some nice pics that I found by searching for "Garand," "Springfield Armory" and some other related search terms. I have copied the captions as they appear online:
From brown Bess to the Chicago typewriter. Part of the collection of small arms at an eastern armory, where a long tradition of gun-making is being brought to bear in the war program
Putting them together. A corner of the assembly room at an armory, where war workers are putting together the parts which make up a Garand rifle
Garand rifles being packed for shipment to troops in training
Tough steel for a tough job. It takes tough steel to stand up in a Garand rifle. Here workmen are testing the hardness of steel at an eastern armory, a center of war work
Study in concentration. Apprentice at an eastern arsenal, operates an engine lathe under the watchful eye of an instructor. Many such study operators are being trained for the war program
Out of the rough. A gun stock takes shape under the hands of a skilled workman as the war production goes ahead at an eastern armory
Frankfort, Kentucky. Eleanore Bennet, age twenty-five, feeding a stamp press with thirty-seven millimeters cartridge cases at the Frankfort arsenal
Organ of death. "This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling, like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms." So wrote Longfellow in his poem, after seeing this stack of 1862 rifles. Now in another emergency the eastern armory again turns out guns for the war
Invention for defense. John C. Garand, inventor of the Army's semi-automatic rifle, at work in his model shop
The man behind the gun. John C. Garand, inventor of the semi-automatic rifle now being turned out in large quantities under the war program, looks over one of the guns
