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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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Shepherd with his horse and dog on Gravelly Range, Madison County, Montana (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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This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif. She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-1
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- Date taken: 1939
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Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Eagle and Phoenix Mill. "Dinner-toters" waiting for the gate to open. ... Location: Columbus, Georgia (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Virginia Young (right) whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Depa
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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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Children gathering potatoes on a large farm, vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. Schools do not open until the potatoes are harvested (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph Company. Said fifteen years old. Exposed to Red Light dangers. Location: Waco, Texas. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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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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Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a f
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- Date taken: 1939
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Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam, Tennessee (TVA) (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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Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Cutting Burley tobacco and putting it on sticks to wilt before taking it into the curing and drying barn on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a helper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. She is learning to operate the turntable. Her husband works for a structural steel company (LOC)
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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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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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Day-laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Cultivating sugar cane on the Virgin Islands Company land, vicinity of Bethlehem, St. Croix (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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FSA borrower? in a sugar-cane field, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Vance, a Trapper Boy, 15 years old. Has trapped for several years in a West Va. Coal mine. $.75 a day for 10 hours work. All he does is to open and shut this door: most of the time he sits here idle, waiting for the cars to come ... (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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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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- Date taken: 1939
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Burley tobacco is placed on sticks to wilt after cutting, before it is taken into the brn for drying and curing, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky. (LOC)
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- 76,062 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Young Cigarmakers in Englahardt & Co., Tampa, Fla. ... (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- 24 favorites
- 75,222 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Taking Burley tobacco in from the fields after it had been cut, to dry and cure in the barn, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- 21 favorites
- 71,160 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Manuel, the young shrimp-picker, five years old, and a mountain of child-labor oyster shells behind him. He worked last year. Understands not a word of English. Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi. (LOC)
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- 109 favorites
- 71,057 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-08-30
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Brown McDowell 12 year old usher in Princess Theatre. Works from 10 A.M. tp 10 P.M. Can barely read; has reached the second grade in school only. Investigator reports little actual need for earnings. Location: Birmingham, Alabama. (LOC)
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- 64 favorites
- 69,572 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-08-30
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Taking Burley tobacco in from the fields, after it has been cut, to dry and cure in the barn, Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 28 favorites
- 69,014 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Taking burley tobacco in from the fields, after it has been cut to dry and cure in the barn, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 16 favorites
- 68,234 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Four-year-old Mary, who shucks two pots of oysters a day at Dunbar. Tends the baby when not working ... Location: Dunbar, Louisiana (LOC)
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- 53 favorites
- 68,129 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-08-30
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Operating a hand drill at the North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane (LOC)
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- 105 favorites
- 66,981 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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- 2 comments
- 115 favorites
- 66,915 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-08-30
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Sorting and packing tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative Tomato Growers Association, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 75 favorites
- 66,482 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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The yardmaster's office at the receiving yard, North Proviso(?), C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 71 favorites
- 66,060 views
- 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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- 25 favorites
- 64,124 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-09-14
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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Irene Bracker, mother of two children, employed at the roundhouse as a wiper, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 108 favorites
- 63,675 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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- 115 favorites
- 63,549 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-08-30
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FSA borrower? in her garden, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 43 favorites
- 60,935 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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An employee in the drill-press section of North American's huge machine shop runs mounting holes in a large dural casting, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, a
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- 5 comments
- 58 favorites
- 59,494 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Only 5 pupils present out of about 40 expected when beet work is over. School #1, Dist. 3, Ft. Morgan, Colo. Oct. 26/15 (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A good job in the air cleaner of an army truck, Fort Knox, Ky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truckdriver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping army transport fleets in operation (LOC)
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- 58,132 views
- Date taken: 1939
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