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A C-87 transport plane, just off the assembly line, at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation field, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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
- 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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- 30 favorites
- 46,039 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Bean fields, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J. (LOC)
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- 5 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 52 favorites
- 45,788 views
- 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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- 23 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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North American B-25 bomber is prepared for painting on the outside assembly line, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- 22 favorites
- 45,664 views
- 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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- 62 favorites
- 45,516 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 22 favorites
- 45,405 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's Proviso yard (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. (LOC)
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- 45,291 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Men of Fort Story operate an azimuth instrument, to measure the angle of splash in sea-target practice, Fort Story, Va. (LOC)
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- 86 favorites
- 45,161 views
- 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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- 8 favorites
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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. Standing on the wing is Floyd Helphrey who came from Iowa to join the Navy early in the year. At right is W.
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- 3 comments
- 48 favorites
- 45,073 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 45,046 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Making wiring assemblies at a junction box on the fire wall for the right engine of a B-25 bomber, North American Aviation, Inc., [Inglewood], Calif. Forward of this wall will be mounted one of the two 1,700-horsepower Wright Whirlwind engines which carry
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- 27 favorites
- 45,016 views
- Date taken: 1939
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A sailor mechanic refueling a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 34 favorites
- 44,896 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 28 favorites
- 44,844 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Tobacco string in the tobacco barn? vicinity of Barranquitas? Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Traffic at 5:30 on Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich. (LOC)
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- 44,639 views
- 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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- 10 favorites
- 44,594 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Cowling and control rods are added to motors for North American B-25 bombers as they move down the assembly line, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- 23 favorites
- 44,533 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Worker inspecting a locomotive on a pit in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 23 favorites
- 44,481 views
- 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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- 25 favorites
- 44,341 views
- 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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- 16 favorites
- 44,188 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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A wing brace assembly for a B-25 bomber is prepared for the assembly line of an aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. With plenty of speed, a 1,700-mile cruising range and a ceiling of 25,000 feet, it has performed as a medium bomber and a
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- 31 favorites
- 44,069 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Locomotives lined up for coal, sand and water at the coaling station in the 40th Street yard of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 43,998 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Aviation cadet in training at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Workers on the Liberator Bombers, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., [Fort Worth, Texas] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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B-25 bombers on the outdoor assembly line at North American Aviation, Incorporated, almost ready for their first test flight, Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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FSA borrower who is a member of a sugar cooperative, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 43,498 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- 43,413 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Sunset silhouette of flying fortress, Langley Field, Va. (LOC)
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- 43,330 views
- 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
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Av. Cadet Thanas at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (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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Mechanical operator on boiler parts, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (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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Ens[ign] Noressey and Cadet Thenics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (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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Working on the cab of a locomotive brought in for repair at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Crane at a "central" gathering place for sugar cane crop, vicinity of San Sebastian, Puerto Rico (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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Sheet metal parts are numbered with this pneumatic numbering machine in North American's sheet metal department, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Christiansted, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR, a general view of a classification yard at Proviso Yard, 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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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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- 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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