[Hand sanders working on cabinets, RCA Victor, Camden, New Jersey]

[Machinist shaping part of driveshaft on largest locomotive, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Eddystone, Pennsylvania]

[Boilermaker tapping for stay-bolts in boiler of modern locomotive, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Eddystone, Pennsylvania]

[Tool-builder planing for taper shoe on steam hammer ram, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Eddystone, Pennsylvania]

[Toolmaker making taper sleeve-gauge from taper reamer, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Eddystone, Pennsylvania]

[Man working with very modern 50-foot electric planer for big steel electric locomotive frames, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Eddystone, Pennsylvania]

[Doffer piecing-up on slubber frame, Pacific Mills, Manchester, New Hampshire]

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles

[Worker operating Crompton-Knowles advanced loom that silves problem of weaving rayon and acetate together, Wishnack Silk Company, Paterson, New Jersey]

[Jackson Winding and Warping Company, Paterson, New Jersey]

[Mailboxes of many new caterpillar shops created in unused mill, New York]

[Worker with machine and thread, William Skinner and Sons, Holyoke, Massachusetts]

[Worker using Finley cutter, Skinner and Sons, Holyoke, Massachusetts]

[Worker stripping rubber bodies off core-bars, Paragon Rubber Company and American Character Doll, Easthampton, Massachusetts]

Scott's Run, West Virginia

[Skilled worker truing balance wheels by placing wheel into calipers provided with an index that shows where it is out of balance, Hamilton Watch, Lancaster, Pennsylvania]

[Skilled worker vibrating hair spring, Hamilton Watch, Lancaster, Pennsylvania]

[Worker sewing in and tacking webbing on chair, Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing Company, High Point, North Carolina]

[Worker putting skein on swift to wind on bobbin, Skinner and Sons, Holyoke, Massachusetts]

[Semi-skilled worker operating turret head to drill, counter-sink, face, and sharpen parts, Hamilton Watch, Lancaster, Pennsylvania]

[Semi-skilled worker putting in pallet arbor, Hamilton Watch, Lancaster, Pennsylvania]

[Semi-skilled card operative piecing up ends, showing man and machine in action, Pickett Yarn Mill, High Point, North Carolina]

[Highly-skilled worker spinning, Pickett Yarn Mill, High Point, North Carolina]