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Poster for a side show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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"Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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"Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a f
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- 23 comments
- 438 favorites
- 134,038 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company (LOC)
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- 101,002 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- 174 favorites
- 83,703 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Praekestolen (i.e., Preikestolen), Geiranger Fjord, Norway] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-01-06
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[Svartisen, Nordland, Norway] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-01-06
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Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 142 favorites
- 59,702 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Low flying planes from which dust or insecticide is spread onto crops by men who "follow the season" up the east coast, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 36 favorites
- 58,577 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A view looking south through the White Mountains from the fire tower manned by Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, Gorham vicinity, N.H. (LOC)
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- 54,985 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Making harnesses, Mary Saverick stitching, Pioneer Parachute Company Mills, Manchester, Conn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Sugar cane country, the Virgin Islands (LOC)
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- 18 favorites
- 38,743 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[Midnight sun, Bell Sound, Norway] (LOC)
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- 31,774 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-01-06
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[Olden, Nordfjord, Norway] (LOC)
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- 23,274 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-01-06
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[Grisons, Switzerland, in winter] (LOC)
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- 45 favorites
- 21,204 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-12-24
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Helen Keller (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 35 favorites
- 18,834 views
- Date taken: 1913
- Date uploaded: 2008-12-05
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Myron Hunt house, 200 North Grand Avenue, Pasadena, California. (LOC)
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- 13 favorites
- 16,079 views
- Date taken: 1917
- Date uploaded: 2012-04-20
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[Cennant Mawr, the Glen, Llanberis, Wales] (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 105 favorites
- 15,427 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-07-24
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Jack Britton (LOC)
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- 10 favorites
- 12,402 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2009-05-15
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East Side Babies (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 20 favorites
- 11,168 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2009-10-23
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[The castle, Aberystwith, Wales] (LOC)
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- 28 favorites
- 10,441 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-07-24
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Mrs. C.E. Fairchild (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 12 favorites
- 9,526 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2009-01-16
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[View II, Aberglaslyn Pass, Wales] (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 19 favorites
- 9,092 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-07-24
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[General view, Bettws-y-Coed (i.e. Betws), Wales] (LOC)
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- 8 favorites
- 8,311 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-07-24
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[Station Hotel, Dumfries, Scotland] (LOC)
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- 5 favorites
- 7,697 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-04-17
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Chapel of the Holy Child (LOC)
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- 3 favorites
- 4,026 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-11-28
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