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• Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham field, Fort Worth, Tex. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Learning how to determine latitude by using a sextant is Senta Osoling, student at Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, Calif. Navigation classes are part of the school's program for training its students for specific contributions to the war effort (LO

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  • 9 comments
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  • 91,854 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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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex. (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 82 favorites
  • 70,239 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex. (LOC)

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  • 120 favorites
  • 68,681 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex. (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
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  • 61,444 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex. (LOC)

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  • 39 favorites
  • 60,977 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians in the armed service, Los Angeles, Calif. Thomas Graham, a member of the Victory Corps at Polytechnic High School, is learning to use a sextant to determine longitude and latitude (LOC

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  • 26 favorites
  • 42,202 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Sun Fo, 1/4/16 (LOC)

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  • 38 favorites
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  • Date taken: 1916
  • Date uploaded: 2013-09-06
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• "Titania" -- Overbrook [dancing] (LOC)

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  • 8 comments
  • 90 favorites
  • 29,873 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2012-11-02
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• Columbia students giving Freshmen a dry shampoo (LOC)

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  • 7 favorites
  • 22,557 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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• [Metropolitan Vocational High School, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1947] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1947
  • Date uploaded: 2011-01-28
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• C.H. Wang (LOC)

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  • 5 favorites
  • 12,711 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2012-04-27
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• Cyrus Stokes Gentry (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2010-06-25
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