The U.S. Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, Illinois, during World War I. (now called Naval Station Great Lakes, or NAVSTA Great Lakes). Trucks and cars are driven through the main entrance gate. Sailors in uniforms walk in and out of the gate. A building near the gate. A sign on the building reads: 'US Naval Training Station, Great Lakes Illinois'. A flag flutters from a flag pole outside a building. Smoke from chimneys of a factory. Wide ranging views of many buildings at the training station from elevated and ground positions. View of barracks.
A U.S. arms manufacturing in World War 1. Hundreds of war production workers seen at shift change, waiting for their respective trolley cars passing on tracks between arms manufacturing plant's buildings. Women at work on metal working machines in an arms factory. Racks of Browning Automatic Rifles (Rifle, Caliber .30, Automatic, Browning, M1918) are being moved about. Assemblers are seen hand fitting parts for the Browning M1917 water cooled machine gun. One man makes final assembly adjustments to one of the machine guns set up on tripod in the factory. He enjoys firing the Browning M1917 machine gun. (Note:The M1917 and M1918 BAR were manufactured by numerous American arms makers. Colt, Remington, Marlin, Royal typewriter, Winchester. Most of the M1917 machine guns were manufactured by New England Westinghouse.)
An elderly woman in Chicago Illinois works for 8 months sewing an Allied flag blanket representing the many flags of America and its allies during World War 1. The patriotic woman addresses a letter and the package to General John J Pershing, as she is giving the blanket to Pershing as a birthday gift. The letter is addressed to "The Father of our Boys, General John J Pershing."
The growing commercial laundry business in Chicago, Illinois early in the 20th century. A delivery man picks up a bundle of shirts at the door of a private residence. Trucks deliver wash to the commercial laundry plant. Drivers unload laundry packages. Wash being fed into large, industrial, electrically driven washing machines. Attendant seals rolling chambers filled with clothes. He adds soap and cleansers at stages. Clothes are then fed into dryers: View of a large industrial commercial hydro-extractor dryer revolving at high speed to remove water. Next the clothes are fed into a large drying drum. A woman takes out shirts from a machine and places them in a basket with a label that reads 'Palace Model Laundry'. Women operate large mangles or wringer machines and fold laundry emerging from the rollers.
A laundry in operation in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Shirts being starched as girls run a collar and cuff starching machine. The shirts piled up on a table. Dampening machines in operation during dampening and ironing process. Women workers mend torn garments and replace missing buttons as they work on sewing machines.
The U.S. Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, Illinois (Naval Station Great Lakes) during World War I. United States Navy Captain William Adger Moffett, commanding the training station, poses on the steps of the building. Other officers join him. The group including enlisted men poses.
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