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Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1942
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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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- 170,150 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Trucks outside of a starch factory, Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. There were almost fifty trucks in the line. Some had been waiting for twenty-four hours for the potatoes to be graded and weighed (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 177 favorites
- 166,331 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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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Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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School children singing, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 23 comments
- 438 favorites
- 134,038 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Boys fishing in a bayou, Schriever, La. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam, Tennessee (TVA) (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Young "Cy" Young [Irv Young] between seasons (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a helper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. She is learning to operate the turntable. Her husband works for a structural steel company (LOC)
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- 103,915 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Child of a migratory farm laborer in the field during the harvest of the community center's cabbage crop, FSA labor camp, Tex. (LOC)
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- 94,178 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Boys sitting on truck parked at the FSA ... labor camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 4 comments
- 135 favorites
- 78,646 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Instructor explaining the operation of the parachute to students, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Farmers and townspeople in the center of town on Court Day, Campton, Ky. (LOC)
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- 18 favorites
- 69,226 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Hauling crates of peaches from the orchard to the shipping shed, Delta County, Colo. (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 94 favorites
- 65,053 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Farmers and townspeople in the center of town on court day, Campton, Ky. (LOC)
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- 12 favorites
- 64,897 views
- Date taken: 1939
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"Worming", Belmont Farm for girls (LOC)
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- 94 favorites
- 63,892 views
- Date taken: 1910
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A young worker at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 9 comments
- 88 favorites
- 63,784 views
- 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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- 12 favorites
- 59,179 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Portrait of a farm boy (LOC)
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- 55 favorites
- 58,435 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Workers at the roundhouse of the C & NW RR Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 56,954 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Welders making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 54,021 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill, C&NWRR. William London has been a railroad worker 25 years - now working at the roundhouse at the Proviso yards (LOC)
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- 85 favorites
- 53,867 views
- Date taken: 1939
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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three children, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- 122 favorites
- 53,012 views
- Date taken: 1939
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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- 141 favorites
- 52,537 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Hauling crates of peaches from the orchard to the shipping shed, Delta County, Colo. (LOC)
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- 51,327 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, now [she is the] only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Portrait of a farm boy (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Employees at Mid-Continent Refinery, Tulsa, Okla. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama (LOC)
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- 11 comments
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- 45,046 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Making wiring assemblies at a junction box on the fire wall for the right engine of a B-25 bomber, North American Aviation, Inc., [Inglewood], Calif. Forward of this wall will be mounted one of the two 1,700-horsepower Wright Whirlwind engines which carry
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- 0 comments
- 27 favorites
- 45,016 views
- 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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- 0 comments
- 16 favorites
- 44,188 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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A wing brace assembly for a B-25 bomber is prepared for the assembly line of an aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. With plenty of speed, a 1,700-mile cruising range and a ceiling of 25,000 feet, it has performed as a medium bomber and a
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- 1 comment
- 31 favorites
- 44,069 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Chicago and North Western R.R., Mrs. Thelma Cuvage, working in the sand house at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. Her job is to see that sand is sifted and cleaned for use in the locomotives. Mrs. Cuvage's husband works as a guard at the Savannah (Ill.) Ord
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- 3 comments
- 27 favorites
- 43,076 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Mechanical operator on boiler parts, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 30 favorites
- 42,690 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Grading and packing onions, Rice County, Minnesota] (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 19 favorites
- 41,796 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Elibia Siematter, employed as a sweeper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 37 favorites
- 41,769 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is finished on a huge turret lathe, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 25 favorites
- 40,719 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Maintenance mechanic in largest coal press in world, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 37 favorites
- 40,391 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Ala. (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 50 favorites
- 39,609 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Pupils on Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont's farm for girls (LOC)
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- 5 comments
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- 38,341 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Drill press operator, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. (LOC)
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- 30,659 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Firemen studying auto motor (LOC)
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- 18,668 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Louisiana Flood 1912-- refugees saved by gov't [i.e. government] boat (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 7 favorites
- 12,887 views
- Date taken: 1912
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Field work, Tuskegee (LOC)
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- 8,809 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2013-05-31
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