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Shasta dam under construction, California (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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John L. Walter, conductor at Proviso yard of the C&NWRR. Mr. Walter has been employed on the railroad for 45 years, 32 of them as conductor. The red nose and cheeks are due to the below zero weather outside. Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The laboratory assistant in foreground is working at a precision balance. Chicago, Ill (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Truck trailers line up at a freight house to load and unload goods from the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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The yardmaster's office at the receiving yard, North Proviso(?), C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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View of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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View of a Chicago and Northwestern railroad freight house. A long line of truck trailers are loading and unloading goods, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of part of classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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John Sabados washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 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 "back up." Calumet City, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Belt Railway, looking toward the west yard of clearing yard, taken from bridge of the hump, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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John Paulinski, car inspector, blue flagging a train for inspection, at Corwith yard, Santa Fe RR trip, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Santa Fe R.R. yards, Argentine, Kansas. Argentine yard is at Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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The giant Santa Fe R.R. 10 million bushel grain elevator, Kansas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Indian houses and farms on the Laguna Indian reservation, Laguna N[ew] Mex[ico]. In the background is Mount Taylor. The Santa Fe R.R. crosses the reservation (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Santa Fe R.R. freight train rounding a curve between Ash Fork and Gleed, Arizona (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Santa Fe R.R. crosses the Colorado River into California between Topock, Arizona and Beal, California (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Flagman standing at a distance behind a Santa Fe R.R. west bound freight train during a stop, Bagdad, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Freight train going up Cajon Pass through the San Bernardino Mountains, Cajon, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of part of the Bensenville freight yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, Bensenville, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Section crew of the [Chicago], Milwaukee [St. Paul and Pacific] R.R. at work, Bensenville, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Loading coal into a lake freighter at the Pennsylvania Railroad docks, Sandusky, Ohio (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Pennsylvania R.R. ore docks, unloading iron ore from a lake freighter by means of "Hulett" unloader, Cleveland, Ohio (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Blast furnace at Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation mill in Etna, Pennsylvania (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A scene in a steel mill, Republic Steel Mill, Youngstown, Ohio. Molten iron is blown in an Eastern Bessemer converter to change it to steel for war essentials (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the
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- Date taken: 1939
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Working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Texas. As an NYA trainee at the Naval Air Base, he gets practical experience. After about eight weeks, he will go into civil service as a sheet me
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- Date taken: 1939
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Learning to work a cutting machine, these two NYA employees receive training to fit them for important work, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks they will be eligible for civil service jobs at the Naval Air Base (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Formerly a sociology major at the University of Southern California, Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis (right) now "keeps 'em flyin'" at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. She is a supervisor under civil service in the Assembly and Repair Department. It is her
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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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Cadet L. Deitz(?) at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Navy N2S primary land planes at the naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Aviation cadet in training at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Navy N2S primary land planes at the Naval Air Base in Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Feeding an SNC advanced training plane its essential supply of gasoline is done by sailor mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Sailor mechanic fueling a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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Working in the Assembly and Repair Dept. of the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Working on a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Starting a propeller at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Aviation cadets at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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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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Rita Rodriguey, (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Putting the nose section of a mighty transport plane in place in the fuselage mating fixture at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Workers on the Liberator Bombers, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., [Fort Worth, Texas] (LOC)
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Two Navy wives, Eva Herzberg and Elve Burnham, entered war work after their husbands joined the service, Glenview, Ill. They assemble bands for blood transfusion bottles at Baxter Laboratories. Mrs. Burnham is the mother of two children (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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 where she lives, Glenview, Ill. She turns in her profits to war
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- Date taken: 1939
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