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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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
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[Bob Burman, race car driver] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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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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G. Washington's teeth (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Mass. (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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Marine Corps Major in dress white uniform, W[orld] W[ar] II (LOC)
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- 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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- Date taken: 1939
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A woman painting a view of the Shenandoah Valley from the Skyline Drive, near an entrance to the Appalachian Trail, Virginia (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A store with live fish for sale, vicinity of Natchitoches, La. (LOC)
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- 15 comments
- 256 favorites
- 134,826 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Marine Corps Captain in dress blue uniform, W[orld] W[ar] II (LOC)
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- 120,856 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Farmland in the Catskill country, in New York State (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a B-25 [i.e. C-47] bomber at the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood [i.e. Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach], Calif. (LOC)
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- 45 comments
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- 116,416 views
- 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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- 51 comments
- 246 favorites
- 113,772 views
- Date taken: 1939
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[John W. January, veteran of Co. B, 14th Illinois Cavalry Regiment, with prosthetic legs] (LOC)
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- 78 favorites
- 113,136 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2018-11-09
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Wreck of teachers train (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 83 favorites
- 112,282 views
- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Weavers at work (LOC)
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- 111,154 views
- Date taken: 1910
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The tenth muse (LOC)
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- 107,390 views
- Date uploaded: 2018-01-07
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Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- 103,437 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Marine Corps Major in summer uniform, W[orld] W[ar] II (LOC)
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- 103,078 views
- 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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Wreck of Teacher's train. Easton, Pa. (LOC)
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- 95,965 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Learning how to determine latitude by using a sextant is Senta Osoling, student at Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, Calif. Navigation classes are part of the school's program for training its students for specific contributions to the war effort (LO
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- 9 comments
- 175 favorites
- 91,854 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Marine Corps Major in winter uniform, W[orld] W[ar] II (LOC)
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- 10 comments
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- 90,426 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Two unidentified soldiers in Union uniforms holding cigars in each others' mouths] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 2012
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An experimental scale model of the B-25 plane is prepared for wind tunnel tests in the plant of the North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. The model maker holds an exact miniature reproduction of the type of bomb the plane will carry. This plant
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- 86,812 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Guide at Little Norway, Blue Mounds, Wis. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Labor union parade, NY., May 1, 1911 (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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[Unidentified African American Union soldier with a rifle and revolver in front of painted backdrop showing weapons and American flag at Benton Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri] (LOC)
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- 2 comments
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- 84,697 views
- Date taken: 1863
- Date uploaded: 2010-12-03
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Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif. (LOC)
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- 32 favorites
- 84,349 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters] (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 91 favorites
- 83,939 views
- Date taken: 1863
- Date uploaded: 2010-12-03
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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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- 174 favorites
- 83,703 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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School children, half of Polish and half of Italian descent, at a festival in May 1942, Southington, Conn. (LOC)
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- 83,207 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Garden of Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)
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- 82,221 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Unidentified African American boy standing in front of painted backdrop showing American flag and tents ; campaign button with portraits of Lincoln on one side and Johnson on the opposite side are attached to inside cover of case] (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 37 favorites
- 80,941 views
- Date taken: 1861
- Date uploaded: 2010-12-03
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P-51 ("Mustang") fighter planes being prepared for test flight at the field of the North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- 5 comments
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- 80,139 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Tewanima (winner), Arquette (came in 5th) (LOC)
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- 79,493 views
- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Room in Chittenden Hotel, Columbus (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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[Medal of Honor] (LOC)
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- 12 comments
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- 78,612 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Mrs. A. Scott Burden (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers are assembled by women workers at North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant (LOC)
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- 77 favorites
- 76,303 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Coney Island, the Whole Drand Family (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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[U.S. Army Medal of Honor with neck band] (LOC)
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- 9 comments
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- 75,460 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Elphinstone Winning Washington marathon (LOC)
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- 14 comments
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- 74,203 views
- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Amb. Leishman and Queen of Italy at Rome Exhibition (LOC)
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- 4 comments
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- 72,852 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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[Girl with doll standing by fence] (LOC)
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- 12 comments
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- 72,569 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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