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• A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company's plant, Long Beach, Calif. Sand bags for protection against air raid form the background. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Juarez, Federal Barricade captured by insurrectos (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1911
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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• Belgians Fighting Doggedly Against Great Odds (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1919
  • Date uploaded: 2011-11-10
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• Building Shelters For Use As Winter Quarters (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1919
  • Date uploaded: 2011-11-10
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