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Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Miss. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Georgia? (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Scene at square dance, McIntosh County, Oklahoma (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Scene at square dance, McIntosh county, Oklahoma (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Work horses near Junction City, Kansas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1942
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[Girl next to barn with chicken] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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In the roundhouse at a yard of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Night view of part of Santa Fe R.R. yard, Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a f
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- 139 favorites
- 78,529 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Transport plane takes off on test flight, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a helper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. She is learning to operate the turntable. Her husband works for a structural steel company (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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Street scene, [Mystic, Connecticut] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Train and several sets of railroad tracks in the snow, Massachusetts] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Side show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Trucks outside of a starch factory, Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. There were almost fifty trucks in the line. Some had been waiting for twenty-four hours for the potatoes to be graded and weighed (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A woman painting a view of the Shenandoah Valley from the Skyline Drive, near an entrance to the Appalachian Trail, Virginia (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Railroad crossing along the Skyline Drive, Virginia (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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M-3 tank and crew using small arms, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill], Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (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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Burley tobacco is placed on sticks to wilt after cutting, before it is taken into the brn for drying and curing, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky. (LOC)
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- 76,062 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 67 favorites
- 69,516 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," near the Court House, Campton, Wolfe County, Ky. (LOC)
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- 74,762 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 22 favorites
- 56,980 views
- Date taken: 1939
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4th of July celebration, St. Helena Island, S.C. (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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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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Young woman at the community laundry on Saturday afternoon, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Saying grace before the barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Homesteader feeding his daughter at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair free barbeque (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Llano de San Juan, New Mexico, Catholic Church (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Garden adjacent to the dugout home of Jack Whinery, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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On the coast of Puerto Rico? (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Federal housing project on the outskirts of the town of Yauco, Puerto Rico. About an acre of land for gardens is provided with each house (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Shasta dam under construction, California (LOC)
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- 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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- Date taken: 1939
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Amarillo, Texas, general view, Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of part of the South Water street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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16-inch coast artillery gun stamped "Watervliet Arsenal 1921," Ft. Story, Va. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Man of the Fort Story, Va. coastal defense (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Halftrack infantryman with Garand rifle, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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The crew of an M-3 tank learn all the ways of causing trouble for the Axis with a 75-mm. gun, a 37-mm. gun and four machine guns, Fort Knox, Ky. The Fort Knox School for tank crews has graduated many men who are now ready to meet the enemy on our far flun
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- Date taken: 1939
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This husky member of a construction crew building a new 33,000-volt electric power line into Fort Knox is performing an important war service, Ft. Knox, Ky. Thousands of soldiers are in training there, and the new line from a hydroelectric plant at Louisv
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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[U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in front of a YB-17 bombing airplane, probably Langley field, Virginia] (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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