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There is a website dedicated to old photographs -- called Shorpy

http://www.shorpy.com/

They have a gallery of old Large Format Kodachrome slides shot for the Office of War Information. Repository: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

http://www.shorpy.com/Large_Fo.....odachromes

Gorgeous stuff and there are several featuring blacksmithing:

http://www.shorpy.com/node/654.....al#caption
April 1943. Blue Island, Illinois. "John Kelseh, blacksmith, at his forge in the blacksmith shop at the roundhouse, Rock Island R.R."

http://www.shorpy.com/node/488.....al#caption
March 1943. "Santa Fe R.R. shops, Albuquerque. Hammering out a drawbar on the steam drop hammer in the blacksmith shop."

http://www.shorpy.com/node/322.....al#caption
November 1941. Youngstown, Ohio. "Slag runoff from open-hearth furnace. Republic Steel Corporation."

And finally:
http://www.shorpy.com/node/296.....al#caption
January 1942. Louisville, Kentucky. "Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed at Tube Turns Inc., by heating lengths of pipe with gas flames and forcing them around a die."

Lots more at the site.