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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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
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Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17 which distinguished itself in acti
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- Date taken: 1939
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Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Women are trained as engine mechanics in thorough Douglas training methods, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the school at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 (
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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- Date taken: 1939
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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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- Date taken: 1939
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Men and women make efficient operating teams on riveting and other jobs at the Douglas Aircraft plant, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") as
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- Date taken: 1939
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Carefully trained women inspectors check and inspect cargo transport innerwings before they are assembled on the fuselage, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Negro migratory workers by a shack, Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 69 favorites
- 75,184 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 60 favorites
- 70,715 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 90 favorites
- 66,075 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Huge drop hammers work day and night forming sheet metal parts for United Nations bombers and fighters at the North American Aviation, Inc., plant, Inglewood, Calif. The heavy hemp rope is used to snub the hammer so that it forms the part under proper pre
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- 37 favorites
- 64,898 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Children in a company housing settlement, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR, working on a locomotive at the 40th Street railroad shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 59,544 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Annette del Sur public[iz]ing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 36 favorites
- 58,364 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 157 favorites
- 58,064 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 26 favorites
- 50,222 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Hammering out a draw bar on the steam drop hammer in the blacksmith shop, Santa Fe R.R. shops, Albuquerque, N[ew] Mex[ico) (LOC)
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- 56 favorites
- 48,418 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Annette del Sur public[iz]ing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 55 favorites
- 47,329 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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View of the Utah Copper Company open-pit mine workings at Carr Fork, as seen from the railroad, Bingham Canyon, Utah (LOC)
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- 45,788 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 19 favorites
- 43,203 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Bomb bay gasoline tanks for long flights of B-25 bombers await assembly in the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and th
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- 1 comment
- 27 favorites
- 41,431 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Metal tubing at the Consolidated Aircraft Corp. plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- 13 favorites
- 37,451 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 32 favorites
- 36,659 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Southland Paper Co., Kraft pulp mill under construction, Lufkin, Texas (LOC)
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- 36,583 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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White-hot steel pours like water from a 35-ton electric furnace, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the
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- 17 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Montana (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Montana (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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M-3 tanks in action, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Section of one of the switchyards from which high tension lines carry current generated at TVA's Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant, Sheffield vicinity, Ala. Located 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installatio
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- 13 favorites
- 28,230 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Section of the batch house at a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Toledo, Ohio. In the bins are stored the raw materials for the batch from which fiberglass materials vital to the war effort are produced (LOC)
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- 8 favorites
- 27,423 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Abraham Lincoln campaign button for 1860 presidential election] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1860
- Date uploaded: 2013-06-28
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U.S.S. NEW YORK (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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RR train caught in flood, Austin (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Mast of Maine (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Troops at Galveston (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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