Historic Photos
 | Aircraft construction class. A DeLand, Florida fruit buyer and a carpenter, both over fifty, now doing aircraft welding which is passing army inspectors without a single rejection. Typical of the men of DeLand who went into war production are John W. Smith, left, fifty-two, with five children and three granddaughters; and Lape. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Aircraft construction class. Behind the mask this arc welder wears at the training school of the DeLand, Florida pool is the face of one of the townsmen, familiar to many in the community as a barber, salesman, taxi driver or gas station attendant. Soon he'll be working on one of the many important war production jobs. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Aircraft construction class. Clyde Williams, instructor in the Daytona Beach, Florida Vocational School, guides the hands of Marie Myers in the first steps of becoming an aircraft welder. Marie was a high school student taking a business course, when she gave it up for defense training entitling her to a high school diploma. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Aircraft construction class. Clyde Williams, instructor in the Volusia County, Florida Vocational School, believes women make just as good welders as men. He is shown here with a new class starting in aircraft welding, part of the training program of the DeLand pool to provide workers for war production. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Aircraft construction class. Daytona Beach, Florida high school students are making a record among the vocational schools of the state in the speed with which they are picking up the mechanics of repairing airplane motors. Dewey Stewart, nineteen, is checking the valve adjustment on a Wright J-5 in the motor room. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Aircraft construction class. Instructor Gil Angell of the Daytona Beach, Florida Vocational School is explaining the intricate job of balancing an airplane propeller to Randolph Thompson and Wilson Flippo, Daytona Beach high school students who'll soon be doing this work on army aircraft. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Aircraft construction class. Instructor Gil Angell shows Ernest Williams, high school student, how to install a cylinder on an aircraft engine in the Daytona Beach, Florida Vocational School that is turning out hundreds of workers for Florida's war production program. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Aircraft construction class. Ken Kirkpatrick, eighteen, of Daytona, is typical of the hundreds of Volusia County youngsters who are preparing to take their places on Florida's production front. Enrolled in the Daytona Beach Vocational School, he's learning the watchmaker's precision necessary to keep army airplane engines ready. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr |
 | Aircraft construction class. Lewis Long, Jr., of Lake Helen, Florida, worked in the county courthouse before Pearl Harbor with a wife and baby to support. Now he's deep in the war effort, welding aircraft. He is shown going through the DeLand Vocational School. Opposite him is Mrs. Mary Owens. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Aircraft construction class. People from every walk of life are taking part in the DeLand, Florida Vocational School as they learn war trades. Above is Mrs. Mary Owens, a housewife with three children who now is training others to be aircraft welders. With him is chief instructor Glen W. Snyder. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Aircraft construction class. Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are those above in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia County Vocational School. Left to right are Helen Cook, a former county courthouse clerk. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Aircraft construction class. The flame of welding torches has replaced the soft lights of a nightclub in Daytona Beach, Florida, which has been taken over for a vocational school to train war workers for Florida's pooling program. Pictured above is C.C. Gravelge, welding instructor, showing one of his classes the difficult art of welding. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr |
 | Aircraft construction class. These carefree high school students are learning the serious business of war production in a Daytona Beach, Florida vocational school located in a revamped nightclub. Instructor Gil Angell (with piston in his hand) is showing the group how to assemble an airplane engine. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Aircraft construction class. These two Daytona Beach, Florida housewives talk war work and welding like their grandmothers talked about the weekly quilting society, as they learn to take their places on a war production line in the Volusia County Vocational School. Mrs. Nancy H. Herbert, left, has a son in the Navy. Mrs. Anna. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Aircraft construction class. Women are being trained along with men in the Volusia County Florida Vocational School to take their places on the war production front. Susie Nelson, left, has a husband in Panama and a brother in the Navy. Pearl Kinchem, right, is a housewife with a brother in the army. Soon both of them will be. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Babcock airplane plant. Earl Gentry was a beverage salesman faced with the loss of his job by the impact of war. He completed 250 hours of training in the DeLand, Florida vocational school. Now he's a first-class welder in the Babcock plant in DeLand. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Babcock airplane plant. Interior of the Babcock plant at DeLand, Florida. When the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor, this was a dormant airplane plant. It was revived as a community project. Businessmen of DeLand pooled their machines and resources, used this plant as a prime contractor to obtain war work, and now are producing. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Babcock airplane plant. Joe Wheeler Miller of DeLand, Florida is doing his part in making machinery that will keep American fighting planes in the air. He was named after a southern general, Joe Wheeler, by a father who thought the General was "the fightinest man he knew" and wanted his son to be likewise. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Babcock airplane plant. The last operation in the DeLand, Florida industrial pool is buttoning up the huge motor repair racks in their packing crates, sealing them against everything from sand to seawater. Left is Mary Babcock, daughter of plant owner, who never dreamed she would be painting destination letters on a war crate. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr |
 | Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop in DeLand, Florida doesn't have fluorescent lighting or air conditioning, but it does have the close tolerance machinery needed to make war weapons. Casey and his one-man crew are shown here as they turn out repair racks for airplanes. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr |
 | Bits and parts. Faced with the problem of doubling production speed on a certain type of washer needed for the DeLand, Florida pool aircraft contract, F.W. Casey went to his scrap heap. He took a two-cylinder gas engine from a spray machine used in an orange grove, a pump from the hydraulic lift of a dump truck, another pump. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Carr's Machine Shop. A typical small metalworking shop, Carr's repair plant in DeLand, Florida, is now subcontracting on war production. When DeLand organized its machines and manpower into a community pool to handle war work, it was discovered Carr's had two things: first class machinery that would work tolerances. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Carr's Machine Shop. C.L. Purcell and his wife had a pretty hard struggle making ends meet these past few years until he went through the defense trade school at Ocala, Florida. Now he is a qualified machinist and welder and can handle most any job in the Carr plant, a key-subcontractor in the DeLand, Florida pool. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Carr's Machine Shop. L.F. Quinton used to be a radio sound engineer with a home workshop where he acquired skill in working to close tolerances, making model racing cars. Now he's using that "know-how" making precision worm gears for the DeLand, Florida pool. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe and his wife, of Eustis, Louisiana, solved one of the DeLand industrial pool's most difficult problems by subcontracting part of a war order in their garage workshop. Mr. La Roe helps his wife in the operation of cutting worm gears on their machine. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Mar. |
 | La Roe shop. Seventy-five-year-old Mrs. Katie La Roe, great-grandmother of the family, does the cooking for the La Roe production group at Eustis, Florida to give other members of the family more time for war work in their garage machine shop. The La Roe family forms an important unit in the DeLand, Florida industrial. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Mar. |
 | La Roe shop. The La Roe "stock" room at Eustis, Florida. When the La Roes needed high-speed steel for dies and tools in tooling up their little garage workshop, they just walked over to this heap, picked out the right metal and made what they needed on the spot. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Mar |
 | La Roe shop. Two grandmothers who are keeping up the production schedule of the La Roe's family shop at Eustis, Florida in processing vital parts for the At the left is Mrs. Ruby Laurence, Mr. La Roe's sister who came down from the north for a visit and stayed south to work on war production. At right is Mrs. La Roe. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Mar. |
 | Moving circus. A circus moved out of its winter quarters in the Volusia County, Florida fairgrounds to make way for a defense plant when the DeLand industrial pool got under way. Fairgrounds' buildings were the only ones in the community big enough to handle the needed assembly line. So when the community got its first big. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Moving circus. Even circuses made way for war in Florida. When the DeLand, Florida industrial pool found it lacked buildings to fulfill a million dollar war contract, it asked the Johnny J. Jones circus to move out of its winter quarters at the county fairgrounds so that the fair's seventeen-foot buildings could be used as a war. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The DeLand industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The DeLand industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The DeLand industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Moving circus. War production in Florida cost these circus animals their winter home for the duration. They are shown as the Johnny J. Jones show vacated its winter quarters at the Volusia County fairgrounds to make room for subcontractors in the DeLand pool, who turned the fairgrounds' buildings into a large war production. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Eleanor Lane was a widow supporting her two children as an interior decorator. When her hometown of DeLand, Florida pooled its manpower and machines to go into war work, she gave up her business and went along. She is shown learning aircraft fabric work in the vocational school set up to. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Skilled craftsmen. Before the war, Florida was regarded as a tourist playground without machines or men capable of war production. Since Pearl Harbor, along the highways and byways of the state, precision machinery is daily being discovered in small shops like this, which are producing close-tolerance work for the Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Sewing plane wing fabric. The ladies sewing circle has a grim meaning in DeLand, Florida these days. Here's one of its daily sessions, sewing fabric on airplane wings they hope will be flying over Germany some day soon. Nearest the camera is Joyce Newsom, instructor in DeLand's vocational school, giving lessons in the new. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Skilled craftsmen. Forty-year-old John Oliver formerly operated a fishing camp on Florida's east coast. When the DeLand pool formed, Oliver volunteered and turned out to be a first class machinist who had learned his trade in Oklahoma. Now he is assembly machinist in the plant, able to handle any job that comes along. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Skilled craftsmen. Sixty-year-old George Lane, former house painter, is a valuable worker in the DeLand, Florida pool. He served in the last war with the British Army from Vimy Ridge to the Occupation. Two of his sons are in the American Army, one with the Air Corps in Australia. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Skilled craftsmen. The DeLand, Florida pool didn't have a shop big enough to fulfill a $2 million contract for gliders. So it took over the county fairgrounds, formerly winter quarters for a circus, and built an assembly line through its seventeen roomy buildings. The pool's first machines are shown being moved into the building. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | DeLand, Florida. DeLand pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Mar.-Apr. |
 | DeLand, Florida. DeLand pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Mar.-Apr. |
 | DeLand, Florida. DeLand pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Mar.-Apr |
 | Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop, down by the railroad tracks in DeLand, Florida, is one of the strongest members of the Volusia County pool, now starting on its third million dollar's worth of war production without a single rejection. F.W. Casey, owner of the shop, looks over some of the miscellaneous items in his yard. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. "Queenie," a NYA (National Youth Administration) student who expects to get a job in a Connecticut defense plant after her training. Parks, Gordon, 1912- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1943 Jan. |
 | Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. A student reading mail from her boyfriend who is in the U.S. Army. Parks, Gordon, 1912- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1943 Feb. |
 | Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Before retiring each night, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune reads from the Bible. Parks, Gordon, 1912- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1943 Jan. |
 | Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Dr. Bethune and Mrs. Davis, a life-long friend, talking of the times when Dr. Bethune sold sweet potato pies to make a downpayment on the institution known now as Bethune-Cookman College. Parks, Gordon, 1912- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1943 Jan. |
 | Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Molten aluminum spills like quicksilver from this homemade bucket-sized ladle and pours white-hot into a mold to cast experimental parts for bombers in Clayton's foundry at Daytona Beach, Florida. Foundry foreman R.G. Campbell watches the color of the pour from the left. Hollem, Howard R., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Apr. |
 | Carpenters constructing new Army barracks at Camp Blanding. Starke, Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1940 July. |
 | Carpenters constructing new Army barracks at Camp Blanding. Starke, Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1940 July. |
 | Construction workers around stove after work in new craftsmen's barracks. Camp Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1940 Dec. |
 | Major Cooke and Mr. O.E. Miller, personnel director for the construction company, Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1940 Dec. |
 | New barracks at Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida. Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.
CREATED/PUBLISHED 1940 Dec. |
 | Army transport in front of remodeled theatre in Starke, Florida. Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1940 Dec. |
 | Boomtown, defense area. Starke, Florida. Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1940 Dec |
| loc052 -- Child of construction worker who had been employed on Camp Blanding job. Starke, Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1941 Jan. |
 | Construction worker's children playing in front of their shacks and tents near Camp Blanding job. Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1940 Dec. |
 | Construction worker's children playing in front of their shacks and tents near Camp Blanding job. Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1940 Dec. |
 | Family of construction worker who had been employed on Camp Blanding job. Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1941 Jan. |
 | Highway to Camp Blanding. "Vets' Lunch" in foreground, new laundry being built. Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1940 Dec. |
 | Living quarters of construction workers near Camp Blanding. Starke. Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1940 Dec. |
 | Soldiers on street corner in Starke, Florida. Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1940 Dec. |
The WACS
 | Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. A scene in the WAAC squad room in Daytona Beach, Florida where members gather during leisure periods on Saturday afternoon. The WAACs are using local hotels for their quarters. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Dec. |
 | Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. The WAACs awaken with hearty appetites in their Florida training center and waste no time lining up for breakfast in the Osceola Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida, which has been taken over to serve as quarters for them. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Dec. |
 | Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Third Officer Alice L. Kidwell, Saint Cloude, Minnesota, is one of a group of WAACs in Daytona Beach, Florida, who will instruct new recruits in water saftey. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Dec. |
 | Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Third Officer Alice L. Kidwell, Saint Cloude, Minnesota, wearing the winter olive drab uniform of the WAACs. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Dec. |
 | Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Twenty-one WAAC Third Officers lined up at edge of the swimming pool in regulation winter uniforms. These girls, having passed Red Cross water safety tests will instruct recruits to be trained at the second WAAC training center in Daytona Beach, Florida. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Dec. |
 | Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAAC motor convoy group takes refresher course before taking up instruction duties. In double file the trucks roll along the hard packed sands of Daytona Beach, Florida. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Dec. |
 | Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAACs at Daytona Beach, Florida, learn how to rescue floats. The float is made of wooden platform supported by inflated barracks tied beneath the platform. Careful swimming enables the rescuers to tow the victim to safety. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Dec. |
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