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Children gathering potatoes on a large farm, vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. Schools do not open until the potatoes are harvested. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Rural school girl, San Augustine County, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Mass. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Mountains along the Skyline Drive in Virginia] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Georgia? (LOC)
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- 88 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Learning how to determine latitude by using a sextant is Senta Osoling, student at Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, Calif. Navigation classes are part of the school's program for training its students for specific contributions to the war effort (LO
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- 9 comments
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- 91,854 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Camouflage class in New York University, where men and women are preparing for jobs in the Army or in industry, New York, N.Y. They make models from aerial photographs, re-photograph them, then work out a camouflage scheme and make a final photograph (LO
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- 20 comments
- 231 favorites
- 87,950 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Georgia? (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 72 favorites
- 82,692 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Camouflage class at N[ew] Y[ork] University, where men and women are preparing for jobs in the Army or in industry, New York, N.Y. This model has been camouflaged and photographed. The girl is correcting oversights detected in the camouflaging of a model
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- 2 comments
- 148 favorites
- 82,099 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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- 11 comments
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- 81,889 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Santa Fe R.R. trains going through Cajon Pass in the San Bernardino Mountains, Cajon, Calif. On the right, streamliner "Chief" going west; in the background, on the left, a freight train with a helper engine, going east. Santa Fe trip (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 62 favorites
- 72,215 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Japanese-American camp, war emergency relocation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 30 favorites
- 54,102 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Shasta dam under construction, California (LOC)
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- 7 comments
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- 51,401 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians in the armed service, Los Angeles, Calif. Thomas Graham, a member of the Victory Corps at Polytechnic High School, is learning to use a sextant to determine longitude and latitude (LOC
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- 3 comments
- 34 favorites
- 46,418 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Mojave Desert country, crossed by the Santa Fe R.R., Cadiz, Calif. (LOC)
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- 53 favorites
- 43,839 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Shasta dam under construction, California (LOC)
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- 43,716 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Santa Fe R.R. crosses the Colorado River into California between Topock, Arizona and Beal, California (LOC)
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- 42,526 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians in the armed service, Los Angeles, Calif. Thomas Graham, a member of the Victory Corps at Polytechnic High School, is learning to use a sextant to determine longitude and latitude (LOC
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- 0 comments
- 26 favorites
- 42,202 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Freight train going up Cajon Pass through the San Bernardino Mountains, Cajon, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A east bound Union Pacific railroad freight train waiting in a siding, Alray, Calif. Coming up through Cajon Pass. The Santa Fe tracks are used by the Union Pacific as far east as Daggett, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)
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- 28 favorites
- 34,726 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Mojave Desert country, crossed by Santa Fe R.R., Cadiz, Calif. (LOC)
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- 28 favorites
- 33,333 views
- Date taken: 1939
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[View of Mount Shasta, Calif.] (LOC)
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- 31,469 views
- Date taken: 1939
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