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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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Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Factory buildings in Lowell, Mass. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Railroad cars and factory buildings in Lawrence, Mass. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Lowell, Mass., street (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Douglas Shoe Factory, Spark St., Brockton, Mass.] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Detail of industrial building in Mass. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Near the waterfront, New Bedford, Mass. (LOC)
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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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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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A starch factory along the Aroostook River, Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F bomber is a later model o
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- Date taken: 1939
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Rhodes Mfg. Co., Lincolnton, N.C. Spinner. A moments glimpse of the outer world Said she was 10 years old. Been working over a year. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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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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Smoke stacks (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Women are trained as engine mechanics in thorough Douglas training methods, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the school at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 (
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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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Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill], Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill], Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Mary Louise Stepan, 21, used to be a waitress. She has a brother in the air corps. She is working on transport parts in the hand mill, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Girl inspectors at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company make a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Smoke stacks (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Smoke stacks (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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- Date taken: 1939
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Smoke stacks (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Grain elevators, Caldwell, Idaho (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Milk and butter fat receiving depot and creamery, Caldwell, Idaho (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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Sawmill at the Greensboro Lumber Co., Greensboro, Ga. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Canning plant where peas are principal project, Milton-Freewater, Oregon (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Little Fannie, 7 years old, 48 inches high, helps sister in Elk Mills. Her sister (in photo) said, "Yes, she he'ps me right smart. Not all day but all she can. Yes, she started with me at six this mornin'." ... Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee (LOC)
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- 66,915 views
- Date taken: 1910
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Huge drop hammers work day and night forming sheet metal parts for United Nations bombers and fighters at the North American Aviation, Inc., plant, Inglewood, Calif. The heavy hemp rope is used to snub the hammer so that it forms the part under proper pre
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Some samples (not all) of the children in the "Kindergarten Factory" run by the High Point and Piedmont Hosiery Mills ... Location: High Point, North Carolina (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-09-14
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Lunch Time, Economy Glass Works, Morgantown, W. Va. Plenty more like this, inside. Location: Morgantown, West Virginia. (LOC)
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- 115 favorites
- 63,549 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-08-30
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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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- 62,875 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Two women employees of North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembling a section of a wing for a P-51 fighter plane (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Formerly a sociology major at the University of Southern California, Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis (right) now "keeps 'em flyin'" at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. She is a supervisor under civil service in the Assembly and Repair Department. It is her
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- 130 favorites
- 60,726 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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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif. The mechanism resembles a small cannon (LOC)
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- 59,347 views
- 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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- 58,227 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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B-25 bomber planes at the North American Aviation, Incorporated being hauled along an outdoor assembly line with an "International" tractor, Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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The Ball Team. Composed mainly of glass workers. Indiana. Aug. 1908. L.W.H. [Lewis Wickes Hine]. (LOC)
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- 56,648 views
- Date taken: 1908
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Nan de Gallant, 4 Clark St., Eastport, Maine, 9 year old cartoner, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #2 ... (LOC)
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- 108 favorites
- 56,161 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-09-14
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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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- Date taken: 1939
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Glass works. Midnight. Location: Indiana. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-08-30
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