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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 are contributing their skills to the nation's needs by keeping our country's planes in top-notch fighting condition, Corpus Christi, Texas. Wife of a disabled World War I veteran, Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base. M

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Spanish-American women replastering an adobe house. This is done once a year. Chamisal, New Mexico (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1940
  • Date uploaded: 2009-05-20
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• Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day at the big construction operations for a new steel plant which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Maintenance man at the Combustion Engineering Co. working at the largest cold steel hydraulic press in the world, Chattanooga, Tenn. This press can shape steel plates several inches in thickness (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Maintenance mechanic in largest coal press in world, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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