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• Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton, Iowa (LOC)

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  • 23 comments
  • 386 favorites
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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • 48 comments
  • 220 favorites
  • 105,754 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background (LOC)

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  • 3 comments
  • 129 favorites
  • 101,702 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Two assembly line workers at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company enjoy a well-earned lunch period, Long Beach, Calif. Nacelle parts of a heavy bomber form the background (LOC)

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  • 11 comments
  • 137 favorites
  • 101,062 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company (LOC)

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  • 9 comments
  • 199 favorites
  • 101,002 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background (LOC)

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  • 7 comments
  • 189 favorites
  • 98,119 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company's plant, Long Beach, Calif. Sand bags for protection against air raid form the background. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at

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  • 9 comments
  • 170 favorites
  • 93,610 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Serving up the barbeque at the Pie Town, New Mexico, Fair (LOC)

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  • 9 comments
  • 61 favorites
  • 78,163 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Men of the community of Pie Town, New Mexico eating at the barbeque (LOC)

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  • 3 comments
  • 104 favorites
  • 76,045 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Son of one of the FSA farmers on the Rio Piedras project who brought lunch to his father, working in the sugar cane field, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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  • 8 comments
  • 96 favorites
  • 66,254 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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  • 0 comments
  • 115 favorites
  • 63,549 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2012-08-30
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• At Beecher Street School, whose student body consists of half Americans of Italian descent and half of Americans of Polish descent, Southington, Conn. The Queen of the May was Emily Schwak, of Polish extraction; the King, Philip D'Agostino, of Italian (L

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  • 3 comments
  • 76 favorites
  • 63,138 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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• Midsummer Day, Bronx Park (LOC)

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  • 6 comments
  • 96 favorites
  • 53,832 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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• Rice and papaya in the lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico? (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 32 favorites
  • 53,637 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Rice in a lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico? (LOC)

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  • 4 comments
  • 31 favorites
  • 50,690 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Rice and papaya in the lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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  • 5 comments
  • 22 favorites
  • 49,358 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Puerto Rico? (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 51 favorites
  • 48,694 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Elibia Siematter, employed as a sweeper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)

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  • 4 comments
  • 37 favorites
  • 41,769 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Wheeler's Coney Island, drive-in, Route 10, Deposit, New York (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 7 favorites
  • 15,971 views
  • Date taken: 1987
  • Date uploaded: 2017-12-01
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• French Fete (LOC)

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  • 8 favorites
  • 9,506 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2009-07-20
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• Branding Iron Restaurant sign, B-40, Flagstaff, Arizona (LOC)

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  • 7 favorites
  • 6,939 views
  • Date taken: 1987
  • Date uploaded: 2019-09-06
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• French Fete (LOC)

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  • 2 favorites
  • 6,280 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2009-07-20
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• French Officers at luncheon in the field (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2011-07-11
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