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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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• Lincoln, Nebraska (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Sugar cane workers resting at the noon hour, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• At Beecher Street School, whose student body consists of half Americans of Italian descent and half of Americans of Polish descent, Southington, Conn. The Queen of the May was Emily Schwak, of Polish extraction; the King, Philip D'Agostino, of Italian (L

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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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• 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
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• A soldier and a woman in a park, with the Old [Russell] Senate Office Building behind them, Washington, D.C. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• [Houses and factories] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Wife of Jim Norris with canned goods, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)

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

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

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  • Date taken: 1939
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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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• 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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  • Date taken: 1939
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• [Field of daisies and orange flowers, possibly hawkweed, Vermont] (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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  • Date taken: 1939
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• One of the girls of Vilter [Manufacturing] Co. filing small gun parts, Milwaukee, Wisc. One brother in Coast Guard, one going to Army. (LOC)

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  • 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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• 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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  • 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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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Street corner, Dillon, Mont. Dillon is the trading center for a prosperous cattle and sheep country (LOC)

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  • 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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  • Date taken: 1939
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• The careful hands of women are trained in precise aircraft engine installation duties at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• United Nations exhibit put on by OWI in Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. Central motif was this frame containing copy of Atlantic charter, with amplifiers at each end broadcasting speeches by Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek every half hour, and

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• Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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• Portrait of a farm boy (LOC)

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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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• Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run (LOC)

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• U.S. Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Grain elevator, Caldwell, Idaho (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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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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• 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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• Geologist examining cuttings from wildcat well, Amarillo, Texas (LOC)

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

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• Little girl in a park with Union Station in the background, Washington, D.C. (LOC)

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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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• A view looking south through the White Mountains from the fire tower manned by Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, Gorham vicinity, N.H. (LOC)

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

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• Gus Worke, a farmer who came from Germany 40 years ago, Southington, Conn. (LOC)

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• Japanese-American camp, war emergency relocation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC)

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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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• 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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• [Portrait of Doris Day and Les Brown, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1946] (LOC)

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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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• 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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• C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)

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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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• Clerk in one of the stock rooms of North American Aviation, Inc., checking to see if the proper numbers of parts were received and placed in the proper bin, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in Ge

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• Rodeo at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair (LOC)

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• Cemetery at edge of Romney, West Va. (LOC)

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