274 •(MANUFACTURING--NAVY LANDING CRAFTS)

Thick WWII-era album with more than 200 photographs documenting the factories, machinery, and infrastructure of the Warren Manufacturing Co., of Warren, Ohio.

An exhaustive survey of the company's buildings and manufacturing, documenting each aspect of the grounds and buildings, including what appears to be some new construction; maps of the vast holdings are bound in. Silver prints, the images measuring 7½x9¼ inches (19.1x23.5 cm.), and the reverse, each with an inventory notation in the negative; a few prints laid in, and 34 marked as duplicates. Large 4to, leatherette, lightly soiled; post binding. Circa 1942-45

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During World War II, the Warren City Manufacturing Company created a 34,000-gallon "indoor ocean" they used to test the landing crafts they created for the United States Navy.