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• Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton, Iowa (LOC)

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  • 23 comments
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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background (LOC)

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  • 101,702 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Two assembly line workers at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company enjoy a well-earned lunch period, Long Beach, Calif. Nacelle parts of a heavy bomber form the background (LOC)

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  • 11 comments
  • 137 favorites
  • 101,062 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background (LOC)

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  • 7 comments
  • 189 favorites
  • 98,119 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Son of one of the FSA farmers on the Rio Piedras project who brought lunch to his father, working in the sugar cane field, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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  • 8 comments
  • 96 favorites
  • 66,254 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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