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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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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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- Date taken: 1939
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Industrial area in Massachusetts, possibly around New Bedford (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam, Tennessee (TVA) (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself i
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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
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A carpenter at the TVA's new Douglas dam on the French Broad River, Tenn. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet ong, with a 31,600-acre reservoir area extending 43 miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,000 acre-feet
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- Date taken: 1939
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An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day at the big construction operations for a new steel plant which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln, March 4, 1861 (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1861
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Wreckage of new library building, Indianapolis (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Jack Whinery, homesteader, repairing fence which he built with slabs, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Steel and concrete go into place rapidly as a new steel mill takes form, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah. The new plant will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Million dollar highway [U.S. 550] is cut through massive rocks in Ouray County, Colorado (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Constructing a building on the site of a new steel mill which will soon turn out steel for the war needs, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day at the big construction operations for a new steel plant which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah (LOC)
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- 53,470 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Shasta dam under construction, California (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Partly finished open hearth furnaces and stacks for a steel mill under construction which will soon be producing vitally needed steel, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Construction work at the TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Shasta dam under construction, California (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Installing structural parts of a C-87 transport plane in the tunnel of a tail fuselage section at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- 40,883 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Central tower from which cable buckets carry materials used in the construction of Shasta dam, California (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Shasta dam under construction, California (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Welder at work on Douglas Dam, Tenn. (TVA) (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Shasta dam under construction, California (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Southland Paper Co., Kraft pulp mill under construction, Lufkin, Texas (LOC)
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- 36,583 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Shasta dam under construction, California (LOC)
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- 12 favorites
- 36,561 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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"Big Pete" Ramagos, rigger at work on dam (TVA) Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 36,306 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Laying cornor [i.e., corner] stone, Columbia. Pres. Butler & Dean Wheeler (LOC)
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- 35,091 views
- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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What colors would you add to this windmill? (LOC)
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- 9 comments
- 136 favorites
- 33,762 views
- Date uploaded: 2017-02-08
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One of the steep streets on the hillsides, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands (LOC)
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- 32,692 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Construction at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 7 favorites
- 32,196 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Construction work at the TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 31,496 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Eight generator units in the generator room of a new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam, Sheffield vicinity, Ala. Located 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kw., which
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Construction of Douglas Dam, TVA (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Identified! [Probably members of the Jefferson District Fire Department Women's Auxiliary, which supported the construction of the Jefferson District Fireman's Hall and Community House in Arlington, Virginia, seen underway in the background] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1927
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Railroad construction on the Shadrinsk-Sinara railroad near the city of Shadrinsk (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1912
- Date uploaded: 2013-08-30
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Excavating within the log cofferdam during an early stage of construction, Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Early stages of construction work at the TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Above the construction work, the aggregate storage pile which provides crushed stone and sand, Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Huntington House - Widening 5th Ave. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Toledo, Ohio. Side view of a glass furnace melting the carefully compounded batch required for the production of Fiberglas thermal insulation being installed in the hulls of naval vessels now under construction (LOC)
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- 25,206 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Construction at Douglas Dam (TVA), Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Raised express track, 9th Ave. "L" (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-12-21
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U.S.S. NEW YORK (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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B'klyn Navy Yard-Laying Keel of NEW YORK (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Woolworth Bldg. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1912
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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NEW YORK before launch (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1912
- Date uploaded: 2008-03-21
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Mast of Maine (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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