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Coal powered central heating, defense housing, Bantam, Connecticut, January 1942 The heating unit is in the kitchen of Fred Heath’s four-room apartment in the new federally-financed homes for eighty families just a few minutes from the Warren...   High-res

Coal powered central heating, defense housing, Bantam, Connecticut, January 1942

The heating unit is in the kitchen of Fred Heath’s four-room apartment in the new federally-financed homes for eighty families just a few minutes from the Warren McArthur factory in Bantam. The well-insulated coal fire puts steam in the radiators and provides the heat for cooking. The tenants are well-pleased although on several nights when the temperature dropped to ten degrees below zero they were forced to replenish the fuel every two or three hours.

Defense housing, Bantam, Connecticut, January 1942 Fred Heath runs a turret lathe at the Warren McArthur plant, where he’s been working since August 1941. He formerly worked in a machine shop in his native city Torrington. One of the first families...   High-res

Defense housing, Bantam, Connecticut, January 1942

Fred Heath runs a turret lathe at the Warren McArthur plant, where he’s been working since August 1941. He formerly worked in a machine shop in his native city Torrington. One of the first families to move into the new war workers’ homes in Bantam, the Heaths, who have been married for five years, had previously been living in a furnished room in Torrington. Mrs. Heath formerly lived in Winsted, a town of about 25,000 people just a dozen miles from Torrington. They are proud of their new home and of the comfortable new furniture they bought on the installment plan in Torrington. They have besides the kitchen, a large living room, a modern bath, a medium-sized master bedroom and a smaller room for their three-year-old daughter, Ann.

Defense housing, Bantam, Connecticut, January 1942 Three-year-old Ann Heath, daughter of Fred Heath, who operates a turret lathe in the Warren McArthur casting room. She has her own little footstool so that she can wash her own hands in the sink of...   High-res

Defense housing, Bantam, Connecticut, January 1942

Three-year-old Ann Heath, daughter of Fred Heath, who operates a turret lathe in the Warren McArthur casting room. She has her own little footstool so that she can wash her own hands in the sink of the bathroom in the four-room defense housing unit where the Heaths live. Ann had quite a trying time getting used to the size of the new apartment, after having lived most of her life with her parents in a single furnished room in Torrington.