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Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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- 79 favorites
- 100,805 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Smoke stacks (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard operating a signal switch system which extends the length of the hump track. He is thus able to control movements of locomotives pushing the train over the hump from his post at the hump office; Chic
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- 3 comments
- 66 favorites
- 53,301 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Portrait of a farm boy (LOC)
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- 38 favorites
- 49,330 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Mechanical operator on boiler parts, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Crane at a "central" gathering place for sugar cane crop, vicinity of San Sebastian, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Southland Paper Co., Kraft pulp mill under construction, Lufkin, Texas (LOC)
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- 15 favorites
- 36,583 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the
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- 35,670 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Washing oranges at an orange packing co-op, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)
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- 35,211 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Loading sulphur from vat, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)
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- 27 favorites
- 34,278 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Freeport Sulphur Co., 60 foot high vat of sulphur, Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, probably in Tashkent] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1905
- Date uploaded: 2013-08-30
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