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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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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• This woman worker at the Vultee-Nashville is shown making final adjustments in the wheel well of an inner wing before the installation of the landing gear, Nashville, Tenn. This [is] one of the numerous assembly operations in connection with the mass prod

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• J.D. Estes at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Retiring a locomotive driver wheel, Shopton, 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 place. Santa Fe R.R. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Getting TITANIC news - White Star Office (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1912
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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• At White Star office after TITANIC disaster (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1912
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• Crowd in front of White Star offices (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1912
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• Annual flower fete, Portland, Oregon (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
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• Supersport Funland sign, Brooklyn, Michigan (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1988
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