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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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  • 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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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Portrait of a farm boy (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Mountains in northern New Mexico (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• War Department Building at 21st and Virginia Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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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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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Partly finished open hearth furnaces and stacks for a steel mill under construction which will soon be producing vitally needed steel, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Building of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Old lead mines here have been reopened, Creede, Colo. Creede for many years was "a ghost town," but has resumed the activities that made it an important lead producing center years ago, and is now producing much vitally needed metal for the war effort (L

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  • 47,980 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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• Courtyard of the Pan American Building, Washington, D.C. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Coke being pushed into a quenching car, Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• The main altar in the church, Trampas, N.M. There are paintings on the wall behind the altar (LOC)

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  • 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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• Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Children stage a patriotic demonstration, Southington, Conn. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. General view showing tank which stores gas from the coke oven. Square building and extension in middle ground is where coal is fed to a feeder belt and then transferred to a storage place

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Employees at Mid-Continent Refinery, Tulsa, Okla. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• View of the Utah Copper Company open-pit mine workings at Carr Fork, as seen from the railroad, Bingham Canyon, Utah (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Amir Khalid [right] and Amir Faisal, sons of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Their Royal Highnesses recently concluded an extensive visit in the United States as guests of the government. They have made a special study of irrigation projects in the United

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• First snow of the season in the foothills of the Little Belt Mountains, Lewis and Clark National Forest, Meagher County, Montana (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• U.S. Supreme Court building, Washington, D.C. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Southland Paper mill, Kraft (chemical) pulp used in making newsprint, Lufkin, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• De-waxing plant at Mid-Continent refinery, Tulsa, Okla. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• A Santo bulto and a painting of the Dolorosa in the church, Trampas, New Mexico (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)

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• Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Marines finishing training at Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C. (LOC)

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• White Mountains National Forest, New Hampshire (LOC)

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• Columbus Statue in front of Union Station, Washington, D.C. (LOC)

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• Nick Grillo, as a boy in Italy, dreamed of America and its opportunity, Southington, Connecticut. He saved enough money for boat passage to this country. Today, after 22 years, he is one of the world's outstanding flori-culturists, developer of the famous

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• Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C. (LOC)

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• Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C. (LOC)

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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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• Marine parachuting at Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Open-pit workings of the Utah Copper Company, Bingham Canyon, Utah. This is the Carr Fork side from which the company obtains huge amounts of ore. The Carr Fork bridge and main shops appear in the foreground (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Ben Bow Mill of the Metal Reserves' Chromite development, Stillwater Co., Montana. This is the first snow of the season (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine. The hangar of Coastal Patrol #20 (LOC)

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• Herder with his flock of sheep on the Gravelly Range, Madison County, Montana (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. Coal tower atop coal ovens (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine. Ground crew making a routine overhaul of a patrol plane at base headquarters of Coastal Patrol #20 (LOC)

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• Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. Coal tower atop coke ovens (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Bands of sheep on the Gravelly Range at the foot of Black Butte, Madison County, Montana (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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