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• Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas (LOC)

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  • 208 comments
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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Crane operator at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tennessee (LOC)

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  • 117 comments
  • 592 favorites
  • 155,792 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam, Tennessee (TVA) (LOC)

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  • 146 comments
  • 424 favorites
  • 124,496 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas (LOC)

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  • 10 comments
  • 164 favorites
  • 97,290 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

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  • 9 comments
  • 250 favorites
  • 84,892 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill.; C & NW RR; Roy Nelin, a box packer in the roundhouse at the Proviso yard (LOC)

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  • 4 comments
  • 122 favorites
  • 68,163 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Rice and papaya in the lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico? (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 32 favorites
  • 53,637 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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  • 4 comments
  • 17 favorites
  • 48,459 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• G.O.P. Mascot (LOC)

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  • 6 comments
  • 162 favorites
  • 45,404 views
  • Date taken: 1915
  • Date uploaded: 2014-03-14
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• Worker inspecting a locomotive on a pit in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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  • 0 comments
  • 23 favorites
  • 44,481 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Working on the cab of a locomotive brought in for repair at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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  • 4 comments
  • 44 favorites
  • 42,197 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• This husky member of a construction crew building a new 33,000-volt electric power line into Fort Knox is performing an important war service, Ft. Knox, Ky. Thousands of soldiers are in training there, and the new line from a hydroelectric plant at Louisv

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  • 6 comments
  • 53 favorites
  • 40,519 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

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  • 4 comments
  • 31 favorites
  • 39,884 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Greasing a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR. (LOC)

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  • 2 comments
  • 10 favorites
  • 35,642 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Coal miners (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 25 favorites
  • 14,409 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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