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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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Marshlands on the New Jersey Shore near Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey (LOC)
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- Date taken: 2017
- Date uploaded: 2024-11-08
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One of dozens of "L"-imprinted red hearts painted on paths in Jamestown, New York's Lake View Cemetery, leading to the gravesite of pioneer television comedian Lucille Ball, whose landmark show, "I Love Lucy," captivated U.S. audiences in the early 1950s.
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- Date taken: 2018
- Date uploaded: 2025-02-14
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Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17 which distinguished itself in acti
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- 43 comments
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Bob Burman, race car driver] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Trucks outside of a starch factory, Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. There were almost fifty trucks in the line. Some had been waiting for twenty-four hours for the potatoes to be graded and weighed (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[Boy] building a model airplane [as girl watches], FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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
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G. Washington's teeth (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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One of the Longaberger Co.'s famous "big baskets" in small Central Ohio cities (LOC)
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- Date taken: 2016
- Date uploaded: 2022-10-27
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Crane operator at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tennessee (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a f
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a B-25 [i.e. C-47] bomber at the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood [i.e. Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach], Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Wreck of teachers train (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
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Orange World citrus stand in a mammoth, orange-shaped vernacular structure dating to 1970, was a must-stop roadside attraction in the years when Kissimmee, Florida, was little more than a citrus-packing center among acres of orange and grapefruit groves (
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- Date taken: 2020
- Date uploaded: 2022-08-26
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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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- 79 favorites
- 100,805 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Wreck of Teacher's train. Easton, Pa. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Col. Villa (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
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Learning how to determine latitude by using a sextant is Senta Osoling, student at Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, Calif. Navigation classes are part of the school's program for training its students for specific contributions to the war effort (LO
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- 91,854 views
- Date taken: 1939
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An experimental scale model of the B-25 plane is prepared for wind tunnel tests in the plant of the North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. The model maker holds an exact miniature reproduction of the type of bomb the plane will carry. This plant
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- 86,812 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Guide at Little Norway, Blue Mounds, Wis. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Labor union parade, NY., May 1, 1911 (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
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Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- 83,703 views
- Date taken: 1939
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[Garden of Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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P-51 ("Mustang") fighter planes being prepared for test flight at the field of the North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Tewanima (winner), Arquette (came in 5th) (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
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Room in Chittenden Hotel, Columbus (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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[Medal of Honor] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Mrs. A. Scott Burden (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
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Jersey tomatoes at The Corn Stop Farmer's Market in Mount Holly, New Jersey (LOC)
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- Date taken: 2017
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Switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers are assembled by women workers at North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant (LOC)
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- 77 favorites
- 76,303 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Coney Island, the Whole Drand Family (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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[U.S. Army Medal of Honor with neck band] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Elphinstone Winning Washington marathon (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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220 Years of the Library of Congress-- preserving all formats for posterity (LOC)
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- Date uploaded: 2020-04-30
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Amb. Leishman and Queen of Italy at Rome Exhibition (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Eva Morrison (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Santa Fe R.R. trains going through Cajon Pass in the San Bernardino Mountains, Cajon, Calif. On the right, streamliner "Chief" going west; in the background, on the left, a freight train with a helper engine, going east. Santa Fe trip (LOC)
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- 7 comments
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- 72,215 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Eva Morrison (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 139 favorites
- 72,195 views
- Date taken: 1910
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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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Metal parts are placed on masonite by this woman employee before they slide under the multi-ton hydropress, North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Mrs. Burke Roche (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Mr. & Mrs. Tyler Morse (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
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Juarez, fortification of adobes during battle (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Brown McDowell 12 year old usher in Princess Theatre. Works from 10 A.M. tp 10 P.M. Can barely read; has reached the second grade in school only. Investigator reports little actual need for earnings. Location: Birmingham, Alabama. (LOC)
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- 69,572 views
- Date taken: 1910
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A nose wheel and landing gear assembly for a B-25 bomber under construction in a western aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. A front section of the plane shows in the background. General Doolittle has called the ship the best military pl
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- Date taken: 1939
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