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Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Irish spinner and spinning wheel. County Galway, Ireland] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1890
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Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1942
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Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1936
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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif. She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-1
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Svartisen, Nordland, Norway] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1890
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[Bondhus glacier and lake, Hardanger Fjord, Handanger, Norway] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1890
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Poster for a side show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Germany Schaefer, Washington AL (baseball)] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
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Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam, Tennessee (TVA) (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Chicago, Illinois. In the waiting room of the Union Station (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1943
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A carpenter at the TVA's new Douglas dam on the French Broad River, Tenn. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet ong, with a 31,600-acre reservoir area extending 43 miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,000 acre-feet
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- Date taken: 1939
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Col. Villa (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
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Crane operator at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tennessee (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[The Tivoli park, Copenhagen, Denmark] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1890
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[Kongen og Dronningen, Bispen, Norway] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1890
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Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Grand Grocery Co.], Lincoln, Neb. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1942
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[Arcade, Rotterdam, Holland] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1890
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[Copenhagen, Helsingborg, Sweden] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1890
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G. Washington's teeth (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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[Abraham Lincoln, Congressman-elect from Illinois. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1846
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Tank driver, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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House, Houston, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[General view, Ålesund, Norway] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-01-06
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Tank commander, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Display of home-canned food] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Blue grotto, Capri Island, Italy] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2010-06-18
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Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative, vicinity of Natchitoches, La. Three Negro children sitting on the porch of a house (LOC)
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- 79 comments
- 294 favorites
- 194,943 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[Fantoft Church, Bergen, Norway] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-01-06
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Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Mass. (LOC)
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- 158,871 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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"Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)
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- 351,683 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Woman putting on her lipstick in a park with Union Station behind her, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Dr. Schreiber of San Augustine giving a typhoid innoculation at a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas (LOC)
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- 72 comments
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- 250,330 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Rope Bridge, Carrick-a-Rede. County Antrim, Ireland] (LOC)
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- 68 comments
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- 56,911 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2010-03-12
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Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC)
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- 67 comments
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- 118,544 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Gols Church, with Hovenstuen and Staburet, Christiania, Norway] (LOC)
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- 83,906 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-01-06
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Burgess (LOC)
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- 61 comments
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- 53,323 views
- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Shepherd with his horse and dog on Gravelly Range, Madison County, Montana (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Smoke stacks (LOC)
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- 106,435 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Children gathering potatoes on a large farm, vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. Schools do not open until the potatoes are harvested (LOC)
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- 60 comments
- 228 favorites
- 150,901 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Portrait of Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947] (LOC)
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- 284,988 views
- Date taken: 1947
- Date uploaded: 2010-07-30
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Summer scene, N.Y. (LOC)
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- 55,256 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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[Swallow Falls II, Fairy Glen, Bettws-y-Coed (i.e. Betws), Wales] (LOC)
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- 25,734 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-07-24
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[Glenariff. County Antrim, Ireland] (LOC)
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- 34,215 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2010-03-12
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[Electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama] (LOC)
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- 51 comments
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- 113,772 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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