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Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard operating a signal switch system which extends the length of the hump track. He is thus able to control movements of locomotives pushing the train over the hump from his post at the hump office; Chic
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- 66 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Man in a sugar-cane field during harvest, vicinity of Rio Piedras? Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Ill. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Assembly and Repairs Dept. mechanic Mary Josephine Farley works on a Wright Whirlwind motor, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 111 favorites
- 53,172 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Gardens are planted in front of the row shelters, FSA ... labor camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Cultivating a field, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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It's an intricate operation - installing a 30-calibre machine gun in a Navy PBY plane, but not too tricky for Jesse Rhodes Waller, Corpus Christi, Texas. He's a Georgia man who's been in the Navy 5-1/2 years. At the Naval Air Base he sees that the flying
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- 2 comments
- 78 favorites
- 52,773 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 5 comments
- 67 favorites
- 52,381 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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- 1 comment
- 72 favorites
- 52,203 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic in the Assembly and Repair Department at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 75 favorites
- 51,798 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Tank crew standing in front of an M-4 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Boys flying a kite in front of community center, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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On North American's outdoor assembly line, a painter cleans the tail section of a P-51 fighter prior to spraying the olive-drab camouflage of the U.S. Army, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 46 favorites
- 51,327 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Cemetery at edge of Romney, West Va. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
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- Date taken: 1942
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Seed and feed store, Lincoln Nebraska (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1942
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J.D. Estes at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 93 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
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Tank commander, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- 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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- 4 comments
- 31 favorites
- 50,690 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Bean field [and canning factory] Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J. (LOC)
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- 11 favorites
- 50,456 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Child of an FSA - R.R. borrower? in front of their house, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 35 favorites
- 50,427 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Harrowing a field with a diesel tractor, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J. (LOC)
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- 16 favorites
- 50,317 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Colored mechanic, motor maintenance section, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- 12 comments
- 71 favorites
- 50,314 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 3 comments
- 44 favorites
- 50,210 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. Cabbie Coleman, former housewife, works at western aircraft plant. Installing of oxygen racks above the flight deck (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 36 favorites
- 49,808 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Beulah Faith, 20, used to be sales clerk in department store, reaming tools for transport on lathe machine, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 84 favorites
- 49,681 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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- 4 comments
- 104 favorites
- 49,662 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kan[sas] (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 62 favorites
- 48,894 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Puerto Rico? (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 51 favorites
- 48,694 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street locomotive shops (LOC)
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- 12 comments
- 14 favorites
- 48,685 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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- 2 comments
- 40 favorites
- 48,680 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Road out of Romney, West Va. (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 91 favorites
- 48,523 views
- Date taken: 1942
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 17 favorites
- 48,459 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Puerto Rico? (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 32 favorites
- 48,234 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 1 comment
- 55 favorites
- 48,224 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Mrs. Doris Duke, who is 26 and a mother of one child, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Duke is a civil service worker in the A[ssembly] and R[epair] dept. at the Navy Air Base (shot - reconditioning spark plugs) (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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- Date taken: 1939
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Here's our mission. A combat crew receives final instructions just before taking off in a mighty YB-17 bomber from a bombardment squadron base at the field, Langley Field, Va. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Man in a sugar cane field during harvest, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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B-25 bombers lined up at North American Aviation, Incorporated, almost ready for their first test flight, Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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- Date taken: 1939
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Frances Eggleston, aged 23, came from Oklahoma, used to do office work. Removing paper from pilot's window(?), Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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After seven years in the Navy, J.D. Estes is considered an old sea salt by his mates at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (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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Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she
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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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Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yards, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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, war-torn world, Fort Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians in the armed service, Los Angeles, Calif. Thomas Graham, a member of the Victory Corps at Polytechnic High School, is learning to use a sextant to determine longitude and latitude (LOC
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- Date taken: 1939
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Tank crew standing in front of M-4 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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