Machine Trades Educational History Posters & Prints
for classrooms and offices.

Planer Erecting Shop
This photo shows workers building a large planer on an even larger planer. The plane being built was likely made for use at Watertown Arsenal located in Massachusetts.

Watertown Arsenal
Founded in 1816, in the Watertown, Massachusetts, Arsenal was greatly expanded in both World War I and II. In this photo, workers are hauling machine tool machines into place in preparation for setting up shop.

Giant Gears
The original caption for this photo read “Giant gears in a shop in Massachusetts will become parts of U.S. warships.” The photo was likely taken for the U.S. Office of Emergency Management, circa 1942.

Colossal Turbine
“Business Goes All Out” was the caption on this 1942 photo of a giant Westinghouse turbine. The Office of War Information noted that the 150-ton turbine would generate 2,400,000 horsepower to run the machines that would produce material and equipment for the war effort.

Powerhouse Mechanic, 1920, Photograph by Lewis W. Hine.

International Harvester Machinist Joseph Harvey Working with a Harvest Machine