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• Parris Island, S.C., barrage balloon (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• "Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)

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  • 74 comments
  • 774 favorites
  • 351,683 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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  • 43 comments
  • 673 favorites
  • 315,916 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • 11 comments
  • 197 favorites
  • 114,662 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself i

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  • 7 comments
  • 297 favorites
  • 114,580 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • 48 comments
  • 220 favorites
  • 105,754 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex. (LOC)

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  • 5 comments
  • 127 favorites
  • 80,394 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Grain elevators, Caldwell, Idaho (LOC)

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  • 9 comments
  • 141 favorites
  • 72,530 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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• 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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• 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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• H. Benson & C. Krauter, wireless men on Merida & Princess Anne (LOC)

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  • 6 comments
  • 24 favorites
  • 57,987 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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• Lewis Tewanima (LOC)

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  • 4 comments
  • 31 favorites
  • 54,201 views
  • Date taken: 1911
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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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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• Officers and crew, U.S.S. Mount Vernon, October 30, 1918 (LOC)

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  • 16 comments
  • 54 favorites
  • 44,145 views
  • Date taken: 1918
  • Date uploaded: 2008-11-05
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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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• Marine Corps barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 39 favorites
  • 32,335 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Marine Corps barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)

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  • 2 comments
  • 10 favorites
  • 31,906 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)

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  • 2 comments
  • 37 favorites
  • 26,818 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)

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  • 0 comments
  • 25 favorites
  • 23,857 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• [Lieutenant Hiram L. Hendley of Co. A, 9th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion, in silver brooch] (LOC)

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  • 3 favorites
  • 7,364 views
  • Date taken: 1861
  • Date uploaded: 2013-06-28
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• International Trophy (LOC)

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  • 3 favorites
  • 6,499 views
  • Date taken: 1912
  • Date uploaded: 2008-05-30
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