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• An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Woman at work on motor, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Lincoln, Nebraska (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1942
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes 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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• Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It

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  • 100 favorites
  • 84,655 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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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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• 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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  • 83,703 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Answering the nation's need for womanpower, Mrs. Virginia Davis made arrangement for the care of her two children during the day and joined her husband at work in the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Both are employed under Civil Service in the Asse

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  • 275 favorites
  • 83,293 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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• [Garden of Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F

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  • 140 favorites
  • 81,048 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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• [Portrait of June Christy and Bob Cooper, 1947 or 1948] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1947
  • Date uploaded: 2010-08-13
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• [Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946] (LOC)

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  • 14 comments
  • 265 favorites
  • 80,582 views
  • Date taken: 1946
  • Date uploaded: 2010-07-30
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• Girl inspector confers with a worker as she makes a a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • 86 favorites
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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Negro migratory workers by a shack, Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)

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  • 27 favorites
  • 79,539 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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• Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of a 105mm. howitzer at the Milwaukee, Wis. plant of the Chain Belt Co. Her son is in the army; her husband is in war work (LOC)

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  • 92 favorites
  • 79,142 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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• [Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt (Milton) Jackson, and Timmie Rosenkrantz, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947] (LOC)

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  • 19 comments
  • 248 favorites
  • 78,574 views
  • Date taken: 1947
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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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  • 139 favorites
  • 78,529 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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• Young woman at the community laundry on Saturday afternoon, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC)

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  • 73 favorites
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  • Date taken: 1939
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• "Women in white" doctor Navy planes (motors) at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mildred Webb, an NYA trainee at the base, is learning to operate a cutting machine in the Assembly and Repair Department. After about eight weeks as an apprentice s

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  • 79 favorites
  • 77,485 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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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
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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • 69 favorites
  • 75,184 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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  • 191 favorites
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  • Date taken: 1939
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• [Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with wife and baby] (LOC)

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  • 23 favorites
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  • Date taken: 1861
  • Date uploaded: 2012-03-16
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• Woman at the community laundry on Saturday afternoon, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC)

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  • 51 favorites
  • 74,084 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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• A Kodak creates a sensation (LOC)

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  • 332 favorites
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  • Date taken: 1890
  • Date uploaded: 2011-07-01
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• With a woman's determination, Lorena Craig takes over a man-size job, Corpus Christi, Texas. Before she came to work at the Naval air base she was a department store girl. Now she is a cowler under civil service (LOC)

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  • 90 favorites
  • 72,819 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Eva Morrison (LOC)

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  • 64 favorites
  • 72,283 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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• Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis has been appointed by civil service to be senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. She buoys up feminine morale in her department by arranging suitable living conditions fo

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  • 223 favorites
  • 71,874 views
  • 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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  • 69 favorites
  • 71,566 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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• Negro migratory workers and one shack, Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)

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  • 21 favorites
  • 70,791 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Mrs. Burke Roche (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
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• Mr. & Mrs. Tyler Morse (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1911
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• Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Mrs. Bill Stagg with state quilt which she made, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• FSA - T[enant] P[urchase] borrowers? by their house, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on the side of the fuselage of a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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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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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Capping and inspecting tubing: two women are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes into the manufacture of the "Vengeance" dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French.

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Women are contributing their skills to the nation's needs by keeping our country's planes in top-notch fighting condition, Corpus Christi, Texas. Wife of a disabled World War I veteran, Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base. M

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Elizabeth Little, age 30, the mother of two children, spraying small parts. Her husband runs a farm (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• [Two unidentified women reading letters] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1860
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• War production workers at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-housewife, age 24, filing small parts. Her husband and brother are in the armed service (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• "Worming", Belmont Farm for girls (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
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• Mrs. B. Harriman (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1912
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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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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Working in the Assembly and Repair Dept. of the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Agnes Cliemka, age 23, married and husband may be going into the service any day, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Agnes used to work in a dep[artmen]t store. Checking of gasoline hose of gasoline trailers before being turned over the Air Force (LOC)

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• Pres. Taft, his sister, her children and Major Butt. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
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