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• This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif. She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-1

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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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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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service, working on black-out lamps to be used on the gasoline trailers in the Air Force, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisc. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Midsummer Day, Bronx Park (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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• Women war workers (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Carnegie playground 5th Ave. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
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• Miss Maisie MacMaster, Portland, Ore. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-10-31
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• Caspar DeLeon (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
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