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• This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif. She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-1

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a f

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Amb. Myron T. Herrick & wife (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1912
  • Date uploaded: 2008-05-16
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• Capt. Von Mucke & bride & sailors of EMDEN (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2013-06-21
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• [Ernst August, Victoria Louise and Prince Oscar] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1913
  • Date uploaded: 2009-04-03
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