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[Garden of Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Camouflage class at N[ew] Y[ork] University, where men and women are preparing for jobs in the Army or in industry, New York, N.Y. This model has been camouflaged and photographed. The girl is correcting oversights detected in the camouflaging of a model
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- 82,099 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Team pulling a car out of the mud; the roads near Pie Town, New Mexico are not improved (LOC)
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- 81 favorites
- 81,410 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 7 comments
- 140 favorites
- 81,048 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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- 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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- 9 comments
- 86 favorites
- 80,518 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[View along US 40 in Mount Vernon Canyon, Colorado] (LOC)
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- 80,190 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day at the big construction operations for a new steel plant which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 135 favorites
- 78,646 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Medal of Honor] (LOC)
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- 12 comments
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- Date taken: 1939
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Smoke stacks (LOC)
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- 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
- 76,303 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Men of the community of Pie Town, New Mexico eating at the barbeque (LOC)
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- 76,045 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- 76,014 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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
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Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 69 favorites
- 75,184 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 191 favorites
- 74,965 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Rockefeller Plaza, exhibit [for] United Nations by OWI, New York, N.Y. Between photographic displays is [the] Atlantic charter in frame with transmitters at each end and where voices of Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek are heard each half hour; su
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- 7 comments
- 37 favorites
- 74,505 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Girl next to barn with chicken] (LOC)
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- 74,314 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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United Nations exhibit by OWI in Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. View of entrance from 5th Avenue (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 59 favorites
- 74,163 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Girl with doll standing by fence] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Children aiming sticks as guns, lined up against a brick building, Washington, D.C.?] (LOC)
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- 72,243 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Santa Fe R.R. trains going through Cajon Pass in the San Bernardino Mountains, Cajon, Calif. On the right, streamliner "Chief" going west; in the background, on the left, a freight train with a helper engine, going east. Santa Fe trip (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 62 favorites
- 72,215 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Children on row house steps, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)
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- 9 comments
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- 71,641 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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C & NW RR, tank cars going over the hump at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (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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- 71,566 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Main Street, Creede, Colorado] (LOC)
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- 71,176 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 60 favorites
- 70,715 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Portrait of Henry Allen, Onyx, New York, N.Y., ca. May 1946] (LOC)
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- 70,123 views
- Date taken: 1946
- Date uploaded: 2010-07-30
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A nose wheel and landing gear assembly for a B-25 bomber under construction in a western aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. A front section of the plane shows in the background. General Doolittle has called the ship the best military pl
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- 6 comments
- 67 favorites
- 69,516 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run (LOC)
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- 68,545 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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United Nations exhibit by OWI at Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. Close-up of photographic display and seals of the nations (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Little girl in a park near Union Station, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1,200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers, Long Beach, Calif. Picture taken at the Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs man
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Marine Corps barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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North American Aviation's B-25 medium bomber, Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Children in street, Washington, D.C] (LOC)
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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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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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- 65,891 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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United Nations Fight for Freedom: Boy Scout in front of Capitol. They help out by delivering posters to help the war effort (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Les Thomas, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 65,040 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Carr Fork Canyon as seen from "G" bridge, Bingham Copper Mine, Utah (LOC)
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- 65,017 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Garage mechanic near Newark, N.J. Badge denotes member of Office of Defense Transportation (LOC)
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- 64,755 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif. Ralph Angar, instructor, explains propeller characteristics to student[s] in the aeronautics class (LOC)
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- 64,680 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 64,247 views
- Date taken: 1939
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