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• Retiring a locomotive driver wheel in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railway locomotive shops, Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in p

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17 which distinguished itself in acti

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• [Grand Grocery Co.], Lincoln, Neb. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1942
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• [Train and several sets of railroad tracks in the snow, Massachusetts] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1942
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• A view of the old sea town, Stonington, Conn. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Connecticut town, probably Stonington, on the sea. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative, vicinity of Natchitoches, La. Three Negro children sitting on the porch of a house (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a FSA cooperative, Natchitoches, La. A Negro family (?) seated on the porch of a house (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Scene at square dance, McIntosh County, Oklahoma (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Houses which have been condemned by the Board of Health but are still occupied by Negro migratory workers, Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Boys sitting on truck parked at the FSA ... labor camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Child of an FSA - R.R. borrower? in front of their house, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Farm Security Administration borrower plowing his garden with one of the few plows used on the island, vicinity of Frederiksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• FSA borrower and participant in the sugar cane cooperative, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Community clothesline, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• [Laundry, barbershop and stores, Washington, D.C.?] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Farm Security Administration borrowers harvesting sugar cane cooperatively on a farm, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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• Ben Bow Mill of the Metal Reserves' Chromite development, Stillwater Co., Montana. This is the first snow of the season (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• The countryside near the Tennessee Valley Authority dam site, Douglas Dam vicinity, Tenn. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Village in New Mexico (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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