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[Portrait of Joe Marsala and Adele Girard, Hickory House, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1946
- Date uploaded: 2010-07-30
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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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- 42 favorites
- 50,290 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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James Lynch, a roundhouse worker, C & NW RR [Proviso yard] (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 104 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Portrait of a farm boy (LOC)
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- 38 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Crates of peaches being gathered from pickers to be hauled to the shipping shed, Delta County, Colo. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Mountains in northern New Mexico (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 61 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Portrait of Django Reinhardt, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946] (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 141 favorites
- 48,864 views
- Date taken: 1946
- Date uploaded: 2010-10-22
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War production worker at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-housewife, age 49, now doing bench work on small gun parts. Son [is] Second L[ieutenan]t, Son-in-law, Capt[ain] in Army (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 46 favorites
- 48,825 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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War Department Building at 21st and Virginia Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 9 comments
- 24 favorites
- 48,711 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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United Nations exhibit by OWI in Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. View of entrance from 5th Avenue (LOC)
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- 18 favorites
- 48,690 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Partly finished open hearth furnaces and stacks for a steel mill under construction which will soon be producing vitally needed steel, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 74 favorites
- 48,642 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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[Laundry, barbershop and stores, Washington, D.C.?] (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 102 favorites
- 48,416 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Farmland along the upper Delaware River in New York state (LOC)
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- 20 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Building of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 15 favorites
- 48,152 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Electronics technician, Goodyear Aircraft Corp., Akron, Ohio (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 138 favorites
- 48,079 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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- 2 comments
- 73 favorites
- 47,980 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Courtyard of the Pan American Building, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 22 favorites
- 47,796 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.] (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 16 favorites
- 47,765 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Coke being pushed into a quenching car, Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 49 favorites
- 47,666 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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The main altar in the church, Trampas, N.M. There are paintings on the wall behind the altar (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 27 favorites
- 47,506 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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- 3 comments
- 55 favorites
- 47,329 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 54 favorites
- 46,659 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Children stage a patriotic demonstration, Southington, Conn. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 46 favorites
- 46,330 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Many automobiles were parked in the grove at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 9 favorites
- 46,230 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. General view showing tank which stores gas from the coke oven. Square building and extension in middle ground is where coal is fed to a feeder belt and then transferred to a storage place
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- 4 comments
- 61 favorites
- 46,228 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Laundry, barbershop and store, Washington, D.C.?] (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 33 favorites
- 46,066 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 0 comments
- 30 favorites
- 46,039 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Employees at Mid-Continent Refinery, Tulsa, Okla. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 62 favorites
- 45,975 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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View of the Utah Copper Company open-pit mine workings at Carr Fork, as seen from the railroad, Bingham Canyon, Utah (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 52 favorites
- 45,788 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Amir Khalid [right] and Amir Faisal, sons of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Their Royal Highnesses recently concluded an extensive visit in the United States as guests of the government. They have made a special study of irrigation projects in the United
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- 7 comments
- 53 favorites
- 45,578 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 61 favorites
- 45,291 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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First snow of the season in the foothills of the Little Belt Mountains, Lewis and Clark National Forest, Meagher County, Montana (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 24 favorites
- 45,236 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama (LOC)
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- 11 comments
- 97 favorites
- 45,046 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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U.S. Supreme Court building, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
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- 44,861 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Southland Paper mill, Kraft (chemical) pulp used in making newsprint, Lufkin, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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De-waxing plant at Mid-Continent refinery, Tulsa, Okla. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Maintenance man at the Combustion Engineering Co. working at the largest cold steel hydraulic press in the world, Chattanooga, Tenn. This press can shape steel plates several inches in thickness (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Row house or school(?), Washington, D.C.] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Portrait of Sarah Vaughan, Café Society (Downtown), New York, N.Y., ca. Aug. 1946] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1946
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A Santo bulto and a painting of the Dolorosa in the church, Trampas, New Mexico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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One of the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. On the right are three of the west coast streamliners, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont. (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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Chicago and North Western R.R., Mrs. Thelma Cuvage, working in the sand house at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. Her job is to see that sand is sifted and cleaned for use in the locomotives. Mrs. Cuvage's husband works as a guard at the Savannah (Ill.) Ord
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- Date taken: 1939
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Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (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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A mating operation on a transport plane just before it comes to the pre-assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (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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