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• A good job in the air cleaner of an army truck, Fort Knox, Ky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truckdriver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping army transport fleets in operation (LOC)

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  • 5 comments
  • 73 favorites
  • 58,132 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live steam, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Sievers is the sole support of her mother and has a son-in-law in the Army (LOC)

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  • 9 comments
  • 115 favorites
  • 57,399 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34807, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, locomotive, loco, cleaning, rods, wheels, pipes, cylinders, railroad, chicagonorthwestern, jackdelano, iowa, woman, worker, steam, steamlocomotive, 1943, spray, water, train, black, clinton, historicalphoto, history, trains, clintoncounty
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• Keep your fire escapes clear (LOC)

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  • 5 comments
  • 131 favorites
  • 54,368 views
  • Date taken: 1936
  • Date uploaded: 2012-01-03
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• On North American's outdoor assembly line, a painter cleans the tail section of a P-51 fighter prior to spraying the olive-drab camouflage of the U.S. Army, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)

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  • 2 comments
  • 46 favorites
  • 51,327 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Joseph Klesken washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Proviso yards of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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  • 0 comments
  • 26 favorites
  • 41,550 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Washing oranges at an orange packing co-op, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)

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  • 3 comments
  • 41 favorites
  • 35,211 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Turrets on UTAH [ship] (LOC)

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  • 3 comments
  • 12 favorites
  • 19,764 views
  • Date taken: 1911
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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• Oregon girls in N.Y. (LOC)

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  • 2 comments
  • 19 favorites
  • 14,128 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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