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• Cutting Burley tobacco and putting it on sticks to wilt before taking it into the curing and drying barn on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," near the Court House, Campton, Wolfe County, Ky. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Workman is doing the preliminary sorting, picking out the discards. Santa Fe trip (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street locomotive shops (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Grading oranges at a co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe trip (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Checking the alignment of a turbine shaft at the top of the guide bearing in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tenn. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kw., which can be

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  • 30 favorites
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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• At work on Mrs. Belmont's Farm for girls (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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