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[Plant 1 lady guard]
Women unidentified.
Group called the "Driverettes" (information from "Fleetwings News" December 1943). -
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[Plant 1 lady guards]
Women unidentified. -
[Welcoming back fliers from WWII at Plant 3]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penn." -
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"7th War Loan Drive, Kaiser Cargo, Inc., Fleetwings Division" [billboard]
Sign reads: "Let's put the heat on, the boys over there sure did!"
Russell Stanton was Union President. He is on the right in the light jacket. -
[Fleetwings employees bowling]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penn." -
[Bond drawing]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penn." -
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[Plant 1 assembly line]
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." -
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[Sparrows recreation field, women's basketball team]
Helen Van Alan shooting. Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penn." -
[Plant 2 opening]
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." -
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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. -
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[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]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
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[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." -
[Fleetwings members bowling]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
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[Fleetwings women's basketball team]
Chalkboard in background reads: "Fleet Wing: 22, Buddies: 11" -
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[One of 14 Fleetwings assembly lines]
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." -
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[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." -
[Aircraft]
Stamped on back of photograph: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese."
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"Five place, all stainless steel Fleetwings Seabird amphibian, built at Bristol, Pennsylvania in 1938"
"Fleetwing F-502" written on back of photograph. -
[Plane]
Stamped on back of photograph: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese." -
[F-206 plane]
Stamped on back of photograph: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese." -
[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." -
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[Christmas tree in Fleetwings plant]
On back of photograph: "File copy, Eljay Photo Service, 42 W. 48 St., NY City." -
[Assembly Plant 1]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penn." -
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[Plant 1 Assembly riveter]
"Eljay #17" written on front. -
[Plant 1 dispensary]
"Eljay #7" written on front. -
[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." -
[Rivet preparation]
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."