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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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Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1942
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative, vicinity of Natchitoches, La. Three Negro children sitting on the porch of a house (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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Going to town on Saturday afternoon, Greene Co., Ga. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Shamrock III in dry dock at Erie Basin, Aug. 17, 1903 (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1903
- Date uploaded: 2015-08-28
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Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Jitterbugging in Negro juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2009-05-20
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[Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1863
- Date uploaded: 2010-12-03
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Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1946
- Date uploaded: 2010-07-30
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Negro migratory workers by a shack, Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Fred Luderus, Philadelphia, NL (baseball)] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Houses which have been condemned by the Board of Health but are still occupied by Negro migratory workers, Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)
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- 71,435 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Sorting and packing tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative Tomato Growers Association, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Race car driver Bob Burman and his "Blitzen Benz"] (LOC)
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- 65,750 views
- Date taken: 1910
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Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[African American baseball players from Morris Brown College, with boy and another man standing at door, Atlanta, Georgia] (LOC)
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- 58,135 views
- Date taken: 1899
- Date uploaded: 2009-10-01
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A good job in the air cleaner of an army truck, Fort Knox, Ky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truckdriver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping army transport fleets in operation (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 73 favorites
- 58,132 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Four African American women seated on steps of building at Atlanta University, Georgia] (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 141 favorites
- 57,743 views
- Date taken: 1899
- Date uploaded: 2010-04-02
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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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Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.] (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 27 favorites
- 56,080 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Country school near Portsmouth, Ohio (LOC)
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- 4 comments
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- 55,292 views
- Date taken: 1942
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Work horses near Junction City, Kansas (LOC)
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- 6 comments
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- 54,817 views
- Date taken: 1942
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill, C&NWRR. William London has been a railroad worker 25 years - now working at the roundhouse at the Proviso yards (LOC)
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- 53,867 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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J.D. Estes at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 93 favorites
- 51,116 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Susan Carey, Gov. J.M. Carey & wife, Dorothy Knight (LOC)
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- 15 favorites
- 50,817 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. Teacher expects 19 to be enrolled after work is over. "Tobacco keeps them out and they are short of hands."... Location: Henderson County, Kentucky (LOC)
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- 50,275 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-09-14
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Santa Fe R.R. locomotive shops, Topeka, Kansas (LOC)
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- 50,068 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill; C & NW RR; L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the roundhouse at the Proviso yard (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 140 favorites
- 47,392 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Secy Stimson & Gen. Grant at lawn party, Gov's Island. (LOC)
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- 5 comments
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- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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[Laundry, barbershop and store, Washington, D.C.?] (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 33 favorites
- 46,066 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 48 favorites
- 42,138 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34600, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, railroad, employees, roundhouse, dark, black, jack, delano, jackdelano, 1942, chicago, geotagged, chicagoandnorthwesternrailway, provisoyard, geo:lat=41898759, geo:long=87895142, melrosepark
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Jos. Choate & Wm. Appleton (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 13 favorites
- 40,337 views
- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Identified! [9-lens aerial mapping camera made by the Fairchild Aerial Camera Corp. for the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. It was built under the direction of Capt. O.S. Reading in 1935] (LOC)
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- 13 comments
- 47 favorites
- 38,798 views
- Date taken: 1936
- Date uploaded: 2015-10-02
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F. Gould (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 13 favorites
- 37,808 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Sam Langford (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 42 favorites
- 35,809 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-31
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Greasing a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 10 favorites
- 35,642 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34603, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, grease, greasy, dirty, black, jack, delano, jackdelano, 1942, chicago, geotagged, chicagoandnorthwesternrailway, geo:lat=41888305, geo:long=87728276, 40thstshops, work, worker, dirtyjob
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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 22 favorites
- 34,770 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Baskets of eggplants] (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 25 favorites
- 34,662 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34448, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, eggplants, vegetables, baskets, black, eggplant, farm, purple, produce, food, aubergines, dark
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Working on a locomotive at the 40th Street shop of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 17 favorites
- 33,209 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Crowds waiting for Johnson in N.Y. (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 10 favorites
- 31,750 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Frances Breese (LOC)
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- 14 comments
- 166 favorites
- 30,016 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-11-02
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Cleaning an engine near the roundhouse, C. M. St. P. & P. R.R., Bensenville, Ill. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 26 favorites
- 26,784 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 151 favorites
- 25,111 views
- Date taken: 1918
- Date uploaded: 2016-01-19
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British kite balloon (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 125 favorites
- 24,927 views
- Date taken: 1915
- Date uploaded: 2016-08-12
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