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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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House, Houston, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Retiring a locomotive driver wheel in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railway locomotive shops, Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in p
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Dr. Schreiber of San Augustine giving a typhoid innoculation at a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1942
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Woman putting on her lipstick in a park with Union Station behind her, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Chicago, Illinois. Model airplanes decorate the ceiling of the train concourses at Union Station (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1943
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Farmland in the Catskill country, in New York State (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Washington, D.C. Field trips for the "flying nun" pre-flight class, including inspection tours of hangars at the Washington National Airport. Here, Sister Aquinas is explaining engine structure to her students (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1943
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C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a helper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. She is learning to operate the turntable. Her husband works for a structural steel company (LOC)
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- 103,915 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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This woman worker at the Vultee-Nashville is shown making final adjustments in the wheel well of an inner wing before the installation of the landing gear, Nashville, Tenn. This [is] one of the numerous assembly operations in connection with the mass prod
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Grocery store, Mt. Orab, Ohio, Route 74] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1942
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Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Two little girls in a park near Union Station, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It
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- 84,655 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)
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- 84,274 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas (LOC)
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- 81,889 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of a 105mm. howitzer at the Milwaukee, Wis. plant of the Chain Belt Co. Her son is in the army; her husband is in war work (LOC)
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- 79,142 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad conductor George E. Burton and engineer J.W. Edwards comparing time before pulling out of Corwith railroad yard for Chillicothe, Illinois; Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 73,297 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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C & NW RR, tank cars going over the hump at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Night view of part of Santa Fe R.R. yard, Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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United Nations exhibit by OWI at Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. Close-up of photographic display and seals of the nations (LOC)
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- 68,493 views
- Date taken: 1939
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A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on the side of the fuselage of a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 108 favorites
- 67,433 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Illinois Central R.R., freight cars in South Water Street freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 66,163 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Capping and inspecting tubing: two women are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes into the manufacture of the "Vengeance" dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French.
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- 46 favorites
- 65,891 views
- Date taken: 1939
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War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Elizabeth Little, age 30, the mother of two children, spraying small parts. Her husband runs a farm (LOC)
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- 64,650 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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War production workers at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-housewife, age 24, filing small parts. Her husband and brother are in the armed service (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Irene Bracker, mother of two children, employed at the roundhouse as a wiper, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Agnes Cliemka, age 23, married and husband may be going into the service any day, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Agnes used to work in a dep[artmen]t store. Checking of gasoline hose of gasoline trailers before being turned over the Air Force (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Two women workers are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes into the manufacture of the "Vengeance" (A-31) dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later ado
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- 61,218 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Field of daisies and orange flowers, possibly hawkweed, Vermont] (LOC)
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- 60,230 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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One of the girls of Vilter [Manufacturing] Co. filing small gun parts, Milwaukee, Wisc. One brother in Coast Guard, one going to Army. (LOC)
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- 101 favorites
- 60,053 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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War production workers at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-stage orchestra musician, checking an M7 gun with gage, after turning out on a gun lathe. Her two brothers and husband are in the serv
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- 3 comments
- 66 favorites
- 59,848 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)
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- 50 favorites
- 59,752 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Workman is doing the preliminary sorting, picking out the discards. Santa Fe trip (LOC)
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- 182 favorites
- 58,530 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service, working on black-out lamps to be used on the gasoline trailers in the Air Force, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisc. (LOC)
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- 67 favorites
- 57,915 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live steam, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Sievers is the sole support of her mother and has a son-in-law in the Army (LOC)
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- 9 comments
- 115 favorites
- 57,399 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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U.S. Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 33 favorites
- 57,309 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Freight Depot of the U.S. Army consolidating station, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 56,813 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of the giant "H" class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 46 favorites
- 55,611 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. A girl taking a picture of the ceremony of laying a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (LOC)
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- 261 favorites
- 55,546 views
- Date taken: 1943
- Date uploaded: 2011-08-18
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War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 27 favorites
- 55,414 views
- Date taken: 1939
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War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army (LOC)
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- 25 favorites
- 54,612 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Packing oranges at a co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 68 favorites
- 54,572 views
- Date taken: 1939
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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three children, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 122 favorites
- 53,012 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 141 favorites
- 52,537 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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