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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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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
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Typical southeastern Georgia farm with newly harvested field of oats (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-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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Railroad cars and factory buildings in Lawrence, Mass. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Detail of industrial building in Massachusetts (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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Industrial area in Massachusetts, possibly around New Bedford (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
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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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Crane operator at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tennessee (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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In the roundhouse at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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Weavers at work (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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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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Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas (LOC)
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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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With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, 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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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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Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It
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- 84,655 views
- 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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Smoke stacks (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Bethlehem graveyard and steel mill. Pennsylvania (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1935
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American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F
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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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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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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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- 69,516 views
- 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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A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on the side of the fuselage of a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee (LOC)
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- 67,433 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Capping and inspecting tubing: two women are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes into the manufacture of the "Vengeance" dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French.
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- Date taken: 1939
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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
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Sugar cane worker in the rich field, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico (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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Two women workers are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes into the manufacture of the "Vengeance" (A-31) dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later ado
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- 61,218 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Flour mill, Caldwell, Idaho (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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C & NW RR, working on a locomotive at the 40th Street railroad shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Large 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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New York & bridges from Brooklyn (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1913
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