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• Blind stenographer using dictaphone (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1911
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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• Women are trained as engine mechanics in thorough Douglas training methods, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • 10 comments
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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Answering the nation's need for womanpower, Mrs. Virginia Davis made arrangement for the care of her two children during the day and joined her husband at work in the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Both are employed under Civil Service in the Asse

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  • 275 favorites
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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a f

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  • 139 favorites
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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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