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Retiring a locomotive driver wheel in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railway locomotive shops, Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in p
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- 19 comments
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- 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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Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- 114 comments
- 888 favorites
- 221,359 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- 36 comments
- 293 favorites
- 127,438 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Amateur wireless station (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 41 favorites
- 56,079 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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German Scientist with detective camera (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 59 favorites
- 25,373 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-03-14
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Firemen's School - demonstrating magneto (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 14 favorites
- 22,849 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Children at Riviere, Belg. (LOC)
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- 16,988 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-11-14
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Linotype on press car (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 18 favorites
- 12,706 views
- Date taken: 1913
- Date uploaded: 2009-07-20
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Donkerque [i.e., Dunkerque] -- shipping carrier pigeons (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 5 favorites
- 9,376 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2011-09-23
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