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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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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 86 favorites
- 56,954 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of the giant "H" class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 46 favorites
- 55,611 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Jack Whinery and Jim Norris, homesteaders, looking at roots of stalk of corn, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)
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- 55,445 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army (LOC)
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- 25 favorites
- 54,612 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Packing oranges at a co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 68 favorites
- 54,572 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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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Bill Stagg turning up pinto beans, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 44 favorites
- 53,164 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three children, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 122 favorites
- 53,012 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Mrs. Norris with homegrown cabbage, one of the many vegetables which the homesteaders grow in abundance, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)
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- 99 favorites
- 52,922 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Bill Stagg, homesteader, with pinto beans, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)
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- 36 favorites
- 52,702 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 52,537 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Large 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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- 67 favorites
- 52,381 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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, Wisconsin (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 78 favorites
- 51,842 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, now [she is the] only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin (LOC)
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- 41 favorites
- 50,917 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Rice in a lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico? (LOC)
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- 50,690 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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C&NWRR, towerman R.W. Mayberry of Elmhurst, Ill., at the Proviso yard. He operates a set of retarders and switches at the hump, Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill. (LOC)
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- 42 favorites
- 50,290 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 32 favorites
- 50,001 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Son of Jim Norris, homesteader, tying corn into bundles, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 27 favorites
- 49,983 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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James Lynch, a roundhouse worker, C & NW RR [Proviso yard] (LOC)
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- 104 favorites
- 49,662 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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FSA borrower and participant in the sugar cane cooperative, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 17 favorites
- 49,499 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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FSA - T[enant] P[urchase] borrowers? in their garden, by their house, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 48,680 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Man in a sugar cane field during harvest, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 47,715 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill; C & NW RR; L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the roundhouse at the Proviso yard (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 140 favorites
- 47,392 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 74 favorites
- 46,097 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif. The mechanism resembles a small cannon (LOC)
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- 30 favorites
- 46,039 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Employees at Mid-Continent Refinery, Tulsa, Okla. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 62 favorites
- 45,975 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. (LOC)
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- 61 favorites
- 45,291 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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- 29 favorites
- 44,970 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Worker inspecting a locomotive on a pit in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 23 favorites
- 44,481 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Maintenance man at the Combustion Engineering Co. working at the largest cold steel hydraulic press in the world, Chattanooga, Tenn. This press can shape steel plates several inches in thickness (LOC)
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- 16 favorites
- 44,188 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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A wing brace assembly for a B-25 bomber is prepared for the assembly line of an aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. With plenty of speed, a 1,700-mile cruising range and a ceiling of 25,000 feet, it has performed as a medium bomber and a
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- 31 favorites
- 44,069 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Gen. Speaks, Maj. Palmer (LOC)
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- 56 favorites
- 44,025 views
- Date taken: 1910
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[Field of cotton] (LOC)
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- 18 favorites
- 43,946 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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FSA borrower who is a member of a sugar cooperative, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 43,498 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Chicago and North Western R.R., Mrs. Thelma Cuvage, working in the sand house at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. Her job is to see that sand is sifted and cleaned for use in the locomotives. Mrs. Cuvage's husband works as a guard at the Savannah (Ill.) Ord
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- Date taken: 1939
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John Sabados washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Mechanical operator on boiler parts, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Operating a machine for putting tops on crates at a co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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
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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Elibia Siematter, employed as a sweeper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Joseph Klesken washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Proviso yards of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Frederick Batt, brakeman, on the C & NW RR, at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A.S. Gerdee, of 3251 Maypole(?) Street, working as a switchman at Proviso yard of C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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FSA borrower who is a member of a sugar cooperative, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Ala. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft plant, is making an emplanage section on a new Consolidated transport, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. This new ship, adapted from the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87
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- Date taken: 1939
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Making harnesses, Mary Saverick stitching, Pioneer Parachute Company Mills, Manchester, Conn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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