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• Farms in the Aroostook County, Me., Oct. 1940 : potatoes (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Crane operator at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tennessee (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• An American pineapple, of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest, is ready to leave the hand of an infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Va. American soldiers make good grenade throwers (LOC)

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  • 37 comments
  • 271 favorites
  • 126,208 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• In the roundhouse at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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  • 28 comments
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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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
  • 246 favorites
  • 113,772 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Seed and feed store, Lincoln, Nebr. (LOC)

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  • 18 comments
  • 117 favorites
  • 69,064 views
  • Date taken: 1942
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Member[s] of the experimental staff at the North American Aviation, Inc., plant, observe wind tunnel tests on an accurate scale model of the B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 bomber, used in Gener

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  • 3 comments
  • 107 favorites
  • 57,111 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Sunset silhouette of flying fortress, Langley Field, Va. (LOC)

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  • 11 comments
  • 96 favorites
  • 43,330 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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  • 48 favorites
  • 42,138 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switchman demonstrating signal with a "fusee" - used at twilight and dawn - when visibility is poor. This signal means "back up." Calumet City, Ill. (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 64 favorites
  • 34,851 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• [Baskets of eggplants] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Switch lights in Santa Fe R.R. yards, Los Angeles, Calif. Due to blackout regulations all such lights are hooded. Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)

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  • 14 favorites
  • 31,106 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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• Helen of Greece (LOC)

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  • 3 favorites
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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2010-08-06
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• Monica Borden (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1914
  • Date uploaded: 2010-07-16
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