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Safety glass manufacturing for American military bombers during World War II

ca. 1942

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Safety glass manufacturing for American military bombers during World War II
  • Title
  • Safety glass manufacturing for American military bombers during World War II
  • Creator
  • PPG Industries
  • Date
  • ca. 1942
  • Identifier
  • 20170227-hpichswp-0011
  • Description
  • Employees assembling the cabins of A-25 bombers that have arrived off of the assembly lines at Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company's Works #9 plant in Crystal City, Missouri. Employees depicted are installing plastic panels on the center fixed sections of the bomber cabins. The panels remain masked during the glazing and riveting process.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • PPG Industries.
    Glass manufacture--Missouri--Crystal City.
    World War--1939-1945.
  • Source
  • PPG Industries Records, 1888-1995, MSS 667, Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • PPG Industries Records
  • Rights Information
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