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Co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Workman is doing the preliminary sorting, picking out the discards. Santa Fe trip (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service, working on black-out lamps to be used on the gasoline trailers in the Air Force, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisc. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 67 favorites
- 57,915 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[Shulman's Market at the southeast corner of N Street and Union Street S.W., Washington, D.C., with a 1931 Chevrolet car parked in front] (LOC)
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- 11 comments
- 68 favorites
- 57,773 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live steam, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Sievers is the sole support of her mother and has a son-in-law in the Army (LOC)
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- 9 comments
- 115 favorites
- 57,399 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Coney Island, A Free Show (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 72 favorites
- 56,851 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Freight Depot of the U.S. Army consolidating station, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 9 comments
- 96 favorites
- 56,813 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President. Seated portrait, facing right] (LOC)
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- 11 comments
- 106 favorites
- 56,526 views
- Date taken: 1864
- Date uploaded: 2009-02-04
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[Portrait of Count Basie, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948] (LOC)
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- 90 favorites
- 56,277 views
- Date taken: 1946
- Date uploaded: 2010-07-30
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Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.] (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 27 favorites
- 56,080 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Chicago girls at Sokol Sports, Prague, Austria (LOC)
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- 17 comments
- 64 favorites
- 54,055 views
- Date taken: 1912
- Date uploaded: 2008-07-18
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Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill, C&NWRR. William London has been a railroad worker 25 years - now working at the roundhouse at the Proviso yards (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 85 favorites
- 53,867 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 141 favorites
- 52,537 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[Willie and Tad Lincoln, sons of President Abraham Lincoln, with their cousin Lockwood Todd] (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 29 favorites
- 51,568 views
- Date taken: 1861
- Date uploaded: 2009-02-04
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Seed and feed store, Lincoln Nebraska (LOC)
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- 5 comments
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- 51,207 views
- Date taken: 1942
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Women war workers (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 55 favorites
- 51,163 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Santa Fe R.R. freight train about to leave for the West Coast from Corwith yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 101 favorites
- 50,989 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Garden Party, Governor's Island (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 39 favorites
- 50,091 views
- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Santa Fe R.R. locomotive shops, Topeka, Kansas (LOC)
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- 9 comments
- 184 favorites
- 50,068 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front] (LOC)
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- 13 comments
- 43 favorites
- 50,014 views
- Date taken: 1846
- Date uploaded: 2009-02-04
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[Laundry, barbershop and stores, Washington, D.C.?] (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 102 favorites
- 48,416 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Electronics technician, Goodyear Aircraft Corp., Akron, Ohio (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 138 favorites
- 48,079 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yards, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 97 favorites
- 46,709 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Princess Viktoria Luise and Crown Princess of Germany (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 68 favorites
- 46,650 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-04-28
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[Klampenborg Hermitage, with view of park, Copenhagen, Denmark] (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 99 favorites
- 46,462 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-01-06
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The latest photograph of President Lincoln - taken on the balcony at the White House, March 6, 1865 (LOC)
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- 10 comments
- 46 favorites
- 46,450 views
- Date taken: 1865
- Date uploaded: 2009-02-04
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Unusual number of centenary celebrations of great men this year (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 36 favorites
- 46,344 views
- Date taken: 1909-01-03 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2009-06-08
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C & NW RR, putting the finishing touches on a rebuilt caboose at the rip tracks at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 74 favorites
- 46,097 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[Laundry, barbershop and store, Washington, D.C.?] (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 33 favorites
- 46,066 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's Proviso yard (LOC)
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- 45,369 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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View of a Chicago and Northwestern railroad freight house. A long line of truck trailers are loading and unloading goods, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 8 favorites
- 45,122 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Grading oranges at a co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe trip (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 29 favorites
- 44,970 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Washing one of the Santa Fe R.R. 54 hundred horse power diesel freight locomotives in the roundhouse, Argentine, Kansas. Argentine yard is at Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 119 favorites
- 44,255 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Mojave Desert country, crossed by the Santa Fe R.R., Cadiz, Calif. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 53 favorites
- 43,839 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Workers on the Liberator Bombers, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., [Fort Worth, Texas] (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 25 favorites
- 43,833 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Auto polo (LOC)
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- 21 comments
- 125 favorites
- 43,813 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-05-09
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[Row house or school(?), Washington, D.C.] (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 27 favorites
- 43,695 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Diesel switch engineer moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 27 favorites
- 43,590 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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One of the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. On the right are three of the west coast streamliners, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of part of the South Water street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. A C and O R.R. caboose. the C and O is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of part of the South Water street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Santa Fe R.R. crosses the Colorado River into California between Topock, Arizona and Beal, California (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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General view of part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Sail Wagon, Brooklyn (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-04-11
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Coney Island, in Luna Park (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Aviation cadet at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 38,744 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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General view of part of the South Water Street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
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- Date taken: 1939
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Trucks unloading at the inbound freight house of the Illinois Central Railroad, South Water Street freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "Super Chief," being serviced at the depot, Albuquerque, N[ew] Mex[ico]. Servicing these diesel streamliners takes five minutes (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Navy N2S primary land planes at the naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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