Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penn."
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Typed note pasted to back of photograph: "Women have taken over men’s jobs to the extent of completely manning on final assembly line in the factory."
[Sparrows recreation field, women's basketball team]
Helen Van Alan shooting. Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penn."
Stamped on back: "Prints by Prinz Otto C. Prinz, 1115 Anchor Street, Del. 0564, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."
[Fleetwings event with Colonel Hawkins, speaker]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna."
[Fleetwings Sheet Metal School, Plant One, Bristol, Penna.]
Undated, photograph printed November 1981
Postcard: "Kaiser Metal Products, Bristol, PA."
The lower building to the right billboard was the main office building. History of property written on back of photograph.
Photograph reproduced as a postcard by Merritt’s Museum of Childhood.
[O'Boyle's Ice Cream truck at Fleetwings plant]
[Plant 1 telephone operators at Fleetwings Aircraft Company, Radcliffe Street, Bristol, PA]
Standing: unidentified. Seated foreground: Mary Quigley of Bath Street, who married Herbert Pettit. Seated in background: unidentified.
[Industrial Relations, Plant 1 personnel department]
[Paint Department Plant 1 Christmas party]
Sign reads: "'The paint slappers' wish you a very Merry Christmas" On back of photograph: "File copy, Eljay Photo Service, 42 W. 48 St., NY City."
[Final assembly line for manufacture of aircraft parts, Fleetwings Plant One]
[Fleetwings plants and parking lots with cars]
Chalkboard in background reads: "Fleet Wing: 22, Buddies: 11"
On back of photograph: "File copy, Eljay Photo Service, 42 W. 48 St., NY City." Sign held by man to left of American flag reads "Hitler's coffin."
7.4a.056 ("Fleetwings Gruman Leading Edge Gang") is the same image, but with text.
[Across from Fleetwings, Patriot Club presenting The Bucks County Rescue Squad with iron lung]
Article clipping included on back of photograph detailing the presentation, dated July 1945.
[Unidentified man in Victory Garden for Fleetwings employees]
Article clipping included on back of photograph entitled, "Victory Gardens," dated July 1944.
[Machine shop and fitting department, Keystone Aircraft Co., Bristol, PA]
Stamped on back of photograph: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese."
"Five place, all stainless steel Fleetwings Seabird amphibian, built at Bristol, Pennsylvania in 1938"
"Fleetwing F-502" written on back of photograph.
[Keystone Aircraft Corp. aerial photograph]
Note extra hangar added and ship ways brushed out by artist. Stamped on back of photograph: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese."
On back of photograph: "File copy, Eljay Photo Service, 42 W. 48 St., NY City."
[Fleetwings’ assembly lines triple production]
On back of photograph: "Neat, efficient, well-lighted final-assembly lines at Fleetwings, Inc., aircraft and aircraft parts manufacturers of Bristol, PA., help speed production of thousands of aircraft parts that the company is building for major military plane manufacturers. Automotive-like assembly methods have tripled output of fins, elevators, stabilizers, and other airplane control surfaces. Credit Courtesy of Fleetwings, Inc."
On back of photograph: "Here the frame of the fin is 'dimpled,' i.e., the rivet holes are counter sunk so that the rivets will be flush with the surface skin and thus make for a smooth-flowing finished job. While this man 'dimples' the frame with a portable tool, his partner completes the same operation, by means of a press, on the skin, or metal sheets. Credit Courtesy of Fleetwings, Inc."
On back of photograph: "Spot-welding a stainless-steel aircraft surface by means of post-type spot-welder, designed and built at Fleetwings, Inc. Bristol, Penna."
[U.S. Army Douglas Dolphin Amphibian Model OA4A]
On back of photograph: "First Gov’t aircraft to have stainless steel wings. Designed, mfg. and installed by Fleetwings Inc., Bristol, PA." Stamped on back of photograph: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese."
Bowling Alley was located on the second floor of a building constructed by the Merchant Fleet Shipbuilding Corporation 1917. Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna."
Photograph used in "Fleetwings News." Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna."
[Fleetwings employees playing basketball]
[Plant 2 on Green Lane; runway, just before WWII]