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• Shamrock III in dry dock at Erie Basin, Aug. 17, 1903 (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1903
  • Date uploaded: 2015-08-28
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• A good job in the air cleaner of an army truck, Fort Knox, Ky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truckdriver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping army transport fleets in operation (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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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• Electronics technician, Goodyear Aircraft Corp., Akron, Ohio (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Texas. As an NYA trainee at the Naval Air Base, he gets practical experience. After about eight weeks, he will go into civil service as a sheet me

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Employees on the "Sunshine" assembly line at North American's plant put the finishing touches on another B-25 bomber, Inglewood, Calif. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base; Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Mrs. Virginia Davis, a riveter in the assembly and repair department of the Naval Air Base, supervises Chas. Potter, a NYA trainee from Michigan; Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Fueling a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kw., which can be increased to a

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Damage by burst main, 129th St. (LOC)

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