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Steel and concrete go into place rapidly as a new steel mill takes form, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah. The new plant will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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High above, over a true "home of the brave," the floating folds of the Star Spangled Banner symbolize the American way of life to soldiers in training for the battles that will bring freedom to an unhappy, wartorn world, Fort Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- 54 favorites
- 62,373 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The laboratory assistant in foreground is working at a precision balance. Chicago, Ill (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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P-51 "Mustang" fighter in flight, Inglewood, Calif. The "Mustang", built by North American Aviation, Incorporated, is the only American-built fighter used by the Royal Air Force of Great Britain (LOC)
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- 17 comments
- 131 favorites
- 61,681 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Shot putter, University of Nebraska (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1942
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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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A fast, hard-hitting new A-20 [i.e., B-25] attack bomber is brought for a test hop to the flight line at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company (LOC)
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- 60,859 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Two women employees of North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembling a section of a wing for a P-51 fighter plane (LOC)
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- 60,839 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Men working on telephone lines, probably near a TVA dam hydroelectric plant] (LOC)
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- 60,102 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Apparatus used at the laboratory at the C & NW RR's 40th Street yards for analysing solutions of metals used in locomotives and the railroad plant, in general, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 59 favorites
- 59,659 views
- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR, working on a locomotive at the 40th Street railroad shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Two Navy wives, Eva Herzberg and Elve Burnham, entered war work after their husbands joined the service, Glenview, Ill. They assemble bands for blood transfusion bottles at Baxter Laboratories. Mrs. Burnham is the mother of two children (LOC)
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- 75 favorites
- 59,538 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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
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Welder at the C & NW RR locomotive shops, 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 59,463 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 81 favorites
- 59,347 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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The kind of man Hitler wishes we didn't have. A bomber pilot, captain in a bombardment squadron, just before he climbs aboard his huge YN-17 bombing plane (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 128 favorites
- 59,073 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Parade of M-4 (General Sherman) and M-3 (General Grant) tanks in training maneuvers, Ft. Knox, Ky. Note the lower design of the M-4, the larger gun in the turret and the two hatches in front of the turret (LOC)
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- 14 comments
- 47 favorites
- 58,600 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Annette del Sur public[iz]ing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 3 comments
- 121 favorites
- 58,227 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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- 5 comments
- 73 favorites
- 58,132 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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B-25 bomber planes at the North American Aviation, Incorporated being hauled along an outdoor assembly line with an "International" tractor, Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
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- 58,122 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Coast Guardsman standing watch over 78-foot torpedo boat. Continual watch is kept. Higgins Industries, Inc., New Orleans, La. (LOC)
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- 57,555 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Workers at the roundhouse of the C & NW RR Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 97 favorites
- 57,114 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Member[s] of the experimental staff at the North American Aviation, Inc., plant, observe wind tunnel tests on an accurate scale model of the B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 bomber, used in Gener
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- 3 comments
- 107 favorites
- 57,111 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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P-51 ("Mustang") fighter planes being prepared for test flight at the field of North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 22 favorites
- 56,980 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 56,954 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Children of FSA-RR borrower? on their farm, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 56,840 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Laboratory worker at the research laboratory at the C & NW RR's 40th Street yard, examining paint samples used on freight cars and coaches of the railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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M-4 tank crews of the United States, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis, senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Dept. of the Naval Air Base, talking with one of the men, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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
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Working inside fuselage of a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Working with a sea-plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Tomato crates at the Yauco cooperative tomato growers' association, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Welders making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 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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- Date taken: 1939
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Hitler would like this man to go home and forget about the war. A good American non-com at the side machine gun of a huge YB-17 bomber is a man who knows his business and works hard at it (LOC)
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Plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Constructing a building on the site of a new steel mill which will soon turn out steel for the war needs, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Worn tires on locomotive wheels are refaced on this machine in the wheel shop of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif. (LOC)
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- 53,651 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Boys flying a kite in front of the community center, FSA camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Rice and papaya in the lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico? (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 53,470 views
- Date taken: 1939
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