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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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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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- 18 favorites
- 42,165 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Elibia Siematter, employed as a sweeper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[Portrait of Joan Brooks and Duke Niles, New York, N.Y., ca. Apr. 1947] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1947
- Date uploaded: 2010-08-13
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Marines finishing training at Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- 41,574 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Frederick Batt, brakeman, on the C & NW RR, at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 49 favorites
- 41,522 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 33 favorites
- 41,454 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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White Mountains National Forest, New Hampshire (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 30 favorites
- 41,317 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Punching rivet holes in a frame member for a B-25 bomber, the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. (LOC)
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- 31 favorites
- 41,301 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Columbus Statue in front of Union Station, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
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- 41,162 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Nick Grillo, as a boy in Italy, dreamed of America and its opportunity, Southington, Connecticut. He saved enough money for boat passage to this country. Today, after 22 years, he is one of the world's outstanding flori-culturists, developer of the famous
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- 2 comments
- 39 favorites
- 40,773 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Portrait of Mary Lou Williams, New York, N.Y., ca. 1946] (LOC)
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- 4 comments
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- Date taken: 1946
- Date uploaded: 2010-07-30
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Maintenance mechanic in largest coal press in world, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 40,391 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Landscape, Northeast Utah (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 30 favorites
- 39,761 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 45 favorites
- 39,687 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 23 favorites
- 39,640 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Ala. (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 50 favorites
- 39,609 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Marine parachuting at Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- 39,027 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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On North American's outdoor assembly line, employees rush a B-25 to completion, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 21 favorites
- 38,572 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Open-pit workings of the Utah Copper Company, Bingham Canyon, Utah. This is the Carr Fork side from which the company obtains huge amounts of ore. The Carr Fork bridge and main shops appear in the foreground (LOC)
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- 31 favorites
- 38,258 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Ben Bow Mill of the Metal Reserves' Chromite development, Stillwater Co., Montana. This is the first snow of the season (LOC)
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- 8 favorites
- 38,187 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine. The hangar of Coastal Patrol #20 (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 13 favorites
- 38,162 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Herder with his flock of sheep on the Gravelly Range, Madison County, Montana (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 31 favorites
- 37,974 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. Coal tower atop coal ovens (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 62 favorites
- 37,671 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine. Ground crew making a routine overhaul of a patrol plane at base headquarters of Coastal Patrol #20 (LOC)
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- 19 favorites
- 37,638 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. Coal tower atop coke ovens (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 53 favorites
- 37,623 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Bands of sheep on the Gravelly Range at the foot of Black Butte, Madison County, Montana (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 19 favorites
- 37,528 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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White Mountains National Forest, New Hampshire (LOC)
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- 12 favorites
- 37,479 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[House in Washington, D.C.?] (LOC)
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- 37,459 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[Portrait of Dave Lambert, Jerry Duane, Wayne Howard, Jerry Packer, and Margaret Dale, New York, N.Y., ca. Jan. 1947] (LOC)
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- 33 favorites
- 37,450 views
- Date taken: 1947
- Date uploaded: 2010-07-30
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American Smelting and Refining, Garfield, Utah (LOC)
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- 39 favorites
- 37,424 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. Cleaning out loose coke after removing a door preparatory to putting door back (LOC)
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- 39 favorites
- 37,325 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 14 favorites
- 37,272 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Altar in the church, Trampas, New Mexico. The prevailing colors are grey and blue. A Coca-Cola bottle is used as a candle holder (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 20 favorites
- 37,115 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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A farm, Bethel, Vt. (LOC)
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- 48 favorites
- 36,883 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 21 favorites
- 36,642 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Southland Paper Co., Kraft pulp mill under construction, Lufkin, Texas (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 15 favorites
- 36,583 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Plaza of Costilla, near the Colorado line, New Mexico (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 22 favorites
- 36,548 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Columbus Fountain and statue in front of Union Station, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 15 favorites
- 36,375 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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General store, Chacon, N[ew] Mex[ico] (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 22 favorites
- 36,361 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Portrait of Teddy Kaye, Vivien Garry, and Arv(in) Charles Garrison, Dixon's, New York, N.Y., ca. May 1947] (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 78 favorites
- 36,352 views
- Date taken: 1947
- Date uploaded: 2010-09-10
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Steps of the Pan American Building, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 13 favorites
- 36,341 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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A land and utility municipal housing project, Ponce, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 5 favorites
- 36,276 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34062, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, puertorico, houses, hills, fence, landscape, 1940s, transparency, ponce
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Memorial Bridge, looking from the Virginia side of the Potomac River across to the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 20 favorites
- 36,089 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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- 3 comments
- 18 favorites
- 36,082 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34549, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, civilairpatrol, aircraft, airplane, airplanes, biplane, ww2, maine, vintage, 1940s, historicalphotographs, slidefilm, 4x5, largeformat, lf, transparencies, transparency, cap, civilairpatrolbase, barharbor, barharborme, red, plane, hancockcounty, waco, yqc6, nc16576, aviation, goldenage, airforce, civil, air, patrol, cadets, rescue, usaf, wacoyqc6
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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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- 0 comments
- 13 favorites
- 36,040 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a35030, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, snow, winter, forest, mountain, clouds, sky, montana, cold, vintage, 1940s, historicalphotographs, slidefilm, 4x5, largeformat, lf, transparencies, transparency, 1942, russelllee, meaghercounty
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An American town and its way of life, Southington, Conn. The Memorial Day parade moving down the main street. The small number of spectators is accounted for by the fact that the town's war factories did not close. The town hall is in the left foreground.
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- 9 comments
- 32 favorites
- 35,731 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a35003, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, vintage, 1940s, historicalphotographs, slidefilm, transparencies, transparency, 4x5, largeformat, lf, parade, cars, blackcars, americanflag, memorialday, southington, connecticut
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Sangre de Cristo Mountain (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 9 favorites
- 35,699 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34473, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, landscape, mountains, snow, sangredecristo, newmexico, collierjohn, spring, 1943, trees, vintage, 1940s, historicalphotographs, slidefilm, 4x5, largeformat, lf, transparencies, transparency
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