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  Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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• 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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  • 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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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• [Portrait of Lilyann Carol, New York, N.Y., ca. Oct. 1946] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1946
  • Date uploaded: 2010-08-13
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• [Portrait of Betty George, Copacabana(?), New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1947
  • Date uploaded: 2010-09-10
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• Princess Jolanda, Italy (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2013-07-19
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• Princess Mafalda -- Italy (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
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• Linda A. Arnold (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2009-04-27
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• Gertrude Watts (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2012-06-29
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