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• Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham field, Fort Worth, Tex. (LOC)

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  • 43 comments
  • 488 favorites
  • 159,580 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Jack Whinery, homesteader, repairing fence which he built with slabs, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)

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  • 4 comments
  • 45 favorites
  • 63,575 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)

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  • 6 comments
  • 54 favorites
  • 46,659 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Pinto beans, main crop at Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 6 favorites
  • 45,358 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• [Chief Meyers, New York NL (baseball)] (LOC)

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  • 8 favorites
  • 23,813 views
  • Date taken: 1913
  • Date uploaded: 2009-02-20
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• Breaking grnd. for New Subway (LOC)

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  • 9 favorites
  • 14,066 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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• [John J. "Red" Murray, New York NL (baseball)] (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 10 favorites
  • 11,196 views
  • Date taken: 1913
  • Date uploaded: 2009-02-20
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• Illuminations on Penn. Ave. Wash'n. for inauguration (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 37 favorites
  • 10,366 views
  • Date taken: 1913
  • Date uploaded: 2008-06-27
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