26 photos
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Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham field, Fort Worth, Tex. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[Houses and factories] (LOC)
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- 8 comments
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 26 favorites
- 61,148 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Jesse Rhodes Waller, A.O.M., third class, tries out a 30-calibre machine gun he has just installed in a Navy plane, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 67 favorites
- 47,455 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 54 favorites
- 46,659 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 62 favorites
- 45,516 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Aviation cadets in training at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 27 favorites
- 40,972 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base; Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 29 favorites
- 38,649 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 18 favorites
- 36,082 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Putting the nose section of a mighty transport plane in place in the fuselage mating fixture at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 9 favorites
- 36,064 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Milk Depot gas station, horizontal view, 900 South & 140 East, Salt Lake City, Utah (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 25 favorites
- 34,753 views
- Date taken: 1981
- Date uploaded: 2017-10-20
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 10 favorites
- 34,292 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Coney Island, Open air circus (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 39 favorites
- 32,046 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Marine Corps barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 10 favorites
- 31,906 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 13 favorites
- 30,226 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine. Flying field of Coastal Patrol #20 (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 4 favorites
- 25,552 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Monmouth Horse Show [jumping] (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 46 favorites
- 24,032 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Grahame White's Nieuport monoplane (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 9 favorites
- 17,499 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Mt. Clemens flying field (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 37 favorites
- 15,500 views
- Date taken: 1915
- Date uploaded: 2015-10-19
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Beatty [flying] (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 24 favorites
- 14,824 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Curtiss "Flying Boat" (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 7 favorites
- 11,387 views
- Date taken: 1912
- Date uploaded: 2008-07-18
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Jesse Seligman (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 8 favorites
- 10,919 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Fresh air outing (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 6 favorites
- 6,455 views
- Date taken: 1913
- Date uploaded: 2009-03-27
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Young (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 4 favorites
- 4,089 views
- Date taken: 1915
- Date uploaded: 2017-11-24
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Evans Refrigeration (1900), Broadway, Pittsburg, Kansas (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 3 favorites
- 2,715 views
- Date taken: 1982
- Date uploaded: 2023-12-15
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