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General view of yard and some of the locomotive shop of the C & NW RR at 40th Street. On the tracks on the right are three streamliners, crack trains, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Working on a locomotive at the 40th Street shop of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A Chicago and Northwestern railroad roundhouse, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Looking toward the Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yard. The trestle runs from the ice house to the yard. The old cars in the foreground are used as living quarters for some yard workers and itinerant help. Town of Melrose Park is in back
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of one of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad yards, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Switchman throwing a switch a C and NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of part of the rip tracks at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C&NWRR, towerman R.W. Mayberry of Elmhurst, Ill., at the Proviso yard. He operates a set of retarders and switches at the hump, Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Locomotive in a railroad yard, Chicago and Northwestern RR (?), near Chicago, Ill.(?) (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switchman demonstrating signal with a "fusee" - used at twilight and dawn - when visibility is poor. This signal means "stop." Calumet City, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "Super Chief," being serviced at the depot, Albuquerque, N[ew] Mex[ico]. Servicing these diesel streamliners takes five minutes (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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West bound Santa Fe R.R. freight train stopping for water, Tolar, N[ew] Mex[ico] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Santa Fe R.R. line leaving Cadiz, Calif. This town is a junction point with a branch going to Phoenix, Ariz. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Freight train with two helper engines climbing the steep grade of Cajon Pass (westbound), Cajon, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Automatic dumper at the co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe trip (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Loading oranges into refrigerator car at a co-op orange packing plant (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. A C and O R.R. caboose. the C and O is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Freight cars at the South Water Street Illinois Central Railroad terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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Section crew at work on the track, C. M. St. P. & P. R.R., Bensenville, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Pennsylvania R.R. ore docks, unloading ore from a lake freighter by means of "Hulett" unloaders, Cleveland, Ohio (LOC)
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Pennsylvania R.R. ore docks, unloading iron ore from a lake freighter by means of "Hulett" unloaders, Cleveland, Ohio (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Pennsylvania R.R. [Railroad] ore docks, unloading iron ore from a lake freighter by means of "Hulett" unloaders, Cleveland, Ohio (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Pennsylvania R.R. ore docks, a "Hulett" ore unloader in operation, Cleveland, Ohio (LOC)
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Bessemer converter (iron into steel), Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Lorena Craig is a cowler under civil service at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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He's like to use that gun on the Axis. 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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A rivet is her fighting weapon. Oyida Peaks, daughter of a Navy lieutenant, one of many women taking NYA training to become mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks apprenticeship she will be qualified as a civil service w
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- Date taken: 1939
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A hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport, before the plane leaves the last station on the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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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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Consolidated transport planes being loaded, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child, ex-housewife, now only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisc. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Marine Sgt. at New Orleans, La. (LOC)
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Spreading fertilizer from 4-mule team wagon, Georgia (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Industrial area in Massachusetts, possibly around New Bedford (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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View of the grounds at the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Casting a billet from an electric furnace, Chase Brass and Copper Co., Euclid, Ohio. Modern electric furnaces have helped considerably in speeding the production of brass and other copper alloys for national defense. Here the molten metal is poured or cas
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- Date taken: 1939
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Potato farms showing layout of land and buildings, vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook, Me. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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View from the Skyline Drive, Virginia. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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View in the mountains along Skyline Drive in Virginia (LOC)
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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. Thousands of soldiers are in training there, and the new line from a hydroelectric plant at Louisville is needed
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- Date taken: 1939
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Mountain farms along the Skyline Drive, Va. (LOC)
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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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Infantryman with halftrack, a young soldier of the armed forces, holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer, Fort Knox, Ky. He likes the piece for its fine firing qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A train bringing copper ore out of the mine, Ducktown, Tenn. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Southern U.S. ... Louisiana? (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Transmission towers in the switchyard of TVA's Chickamauga Dam, near Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Transmission line towers and high tension lines that carry current generated at TVA's Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant, near Sheffield, Ala. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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The countryside near the Tennessee Valley Authority dam site, Douglas Dam vicinity, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Countryside near the TVA site of the Douglas dam, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Backyard of Negro tenant's home, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Miss. Delta (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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