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East Montpelier, Vermont. Charles Ormsbee's son Richard, aged five, who tries to help on his father's farm

East Montpelier, United States

East Montpelier, Vermont. Charles Ormsbee, at the mailbox on his farm "Harvest Acres," talking over farm bureau matters with a caller

East Montpelier, United States

East Montpelier, Vermont. Mrs. Myrtle Ormsbee and Marilyn, mother and daughter of farmer Charles Ormsbee. Mrs. Ormsbee is knitting sweaters for the Red Cross

East Montpelier, United States

East Montpelier, Vermont. Charles Ormsbee's widowed mother, Myrtle Ormsbee, knitting sweaters for the Red Cross. Mr. Ormsbee increased his produce, milk, and wood to aid the war effort, and all the members of his family aid in many ways

East Montpelier, United States

East Montpelier, Vermont. The Charles Ormsbee family at dinner

East Montpelier, United States

East Montpelier, Vermont. The woodlot on Charles Ormsbee's farm. He agreed to saw up 10,000 board feet of lumber from his woodlot this year as against none last year

East Montpelier, United States

East Montpelier, Vermont. Conrad, age eleven, son of Charles Ormsbee, a member of the Capital City Boys 4-H club, who is raising a Jersey calf as his war project, helping his father at milking time. He knows how to use the automatic electric milker

East Montpelier, United States

East Montpelier, Vermont. Richard, age five, son of Charles Ormsbee, who licks all the savings stamps and helps in other ways in the family war projects

East Montpelier, United States

East Montpelier, Vermont. Conrad, age eleven, son of Charles Ormsbee, a member of the Capital City Boys 4-H Club, who is raising a Jersey calf as his war project

East Montpelier, United States

West Danville, Vermont. Maynard Clark, fourteen, and Guy Davenport, eleven, reading the air raid instructions posted in Gilbert S. Hastings's post office and general store

West Danville, United States

West Danville, Vermont. Mr. Hastings in his general store taking an order over the telephone

West Danville, United States

telephones general store

West Danville, Vermont. Mr. Hastings in his general store taking an order over the telephone

West Danville, United States

West Danville, Vermont. "What else will it be today, Mrs. Metcalf?" asks Mrs. Hastings, who has clerked in the general store owned by Mr. and Mrs. Hastings for twenty-nine years. Ronald Drown is looking on

West Danville, United States

West Danville, Vermont. A load of sawdust from the lumber mill. The wagon saves gas and rubber

West Danville, United States

carts and wagons

West Danville, Vermont. The shelves in G. S. Hastings's general store, holding 8,000 to 10,000 items which are clearly marked with "calling price"

West Danville, United States

West Danville, Vermont. A farmer reading his mail at the post office in G. S. Hastings's general store

West Danville, United States

West Danville, Vermont. Girls from Saint Johnsbury where they are spending a weekend on Joe's Pond, looking over fishing tackle in G. S. Hastings's general store

West Danville, United States

Las Vegas, Nevada. Buildings of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert, showing a peat storage building at the left

Las Vegas, United States

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, United States

transmission tower

Las Vegas, Nevada. Giant silos, eighty-four feet high, for the storage of ore for the manufacture of magnesium, on the grounds of Basic Magnesium Incorporated

Las Vegas, United States

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, United States

transmission tower

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, United States

transmission tower

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, United States

transmission tower

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, United States

transmission tower