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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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
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Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Crane operator at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tennessee (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Women from all fields have joined the production army, Corpus Christi, Texas. Miss Grace Weaver, a civil service worker at the Naval Air Base, and a school teacher before the war, is doing her part for victory along with her brother who is a flying instru
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- Date taken: 1939
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Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam, Tennessee (TVA) (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Washington, D.C. Government charwoman (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1942
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Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a helper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. She is learning to operate the turntable. Her husband works for a structural steel company (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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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
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Two assembly line workers at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company enjoy a well-earned lunch period, Long Beach, Calif. Nacelle parts of a heavy bomber form the background (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A carpenter at the TVA's new Douglas dam on the French Broad River, Tenn. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet ong, with a 31,600-acre reservoir area extending 43 miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,000 acre-feet
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- Date taken: 1939
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With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Mary Louise Stepan, 21, used to be a waitress. She has a brother in the air corps. She is working on transport parts in the hand mill, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Man shovelling ears of dried corn from wagon through feed store window] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1942
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An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of a 105mm. howitzer at the Milwaukee, Wis. plant of the Chain Belt Co. Her son is in the army; her husband is in war work (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day at the big construction operations for a new steel plant which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah (LOC)
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- 78,646 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers are assembled by women workers at North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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14-yr. old striker, Fola La Follette, and Rose Livingston (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Sugar cane worker and his woman, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Negro migratory workers and one shack, Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)
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- 21 favorites
- 70,791 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic at the Naval Air Base, in the Assembly and Repair Department, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 70,511 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill.; C & NW RR; Roy Nelin, a box packer in the roundhouse at the Proviso yard (LOC)
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- 4 comments
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- 68,163 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 67,268 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Migratory worker, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC)
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- 66,041 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Sugar cane worker in the rich field, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 4 comments
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- 64,619 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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War production workers at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-housewife, age 24, filing small parts. Her husband and brother are in the armed service (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 135 favorites
- 64,247 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A young worker at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 9 comments
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Irene Bracker, mother of two children, employed at the roundhouse as a wiper, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 108 favorites
- 63,675 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Working in the Assembly and Repair Dept. of the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 92 favorites
- 63,158 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Agnes Cliemka, age 23, married and husband may be going into the service any day, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Agnes used to work in a dep[artmen]t store. Checking of gasoline hose of gasoline trailers before being turned over the Air Force (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 40 favorites
- 62,973 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Jim Norris, homesteader, cutting a head of cabbage, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)
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- 5 comments
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- 62,173 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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One of the girls of Vilter [Manufacturing] Co. filing small gun parts, Milwaukee, Wisc. One brother in Coast Guard, one going to Army. (LOC)
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- 101 favorites
- 60,053 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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War production workers at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-stage orchestra musician, checking an M7 gun with gage, after turning out on a gun lathe. Her two brothers and husband are in the serv
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- 3 comments
- 66 favorites
- 59,848 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 142 favorites
- 59,702 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif. The mechanism resembles a small cannon (LOC)
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- 59,347 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Workman is doing the preliminary sorting, picking out the discards. Santa Fe trip (LOC)
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- 58,530 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Bill Stagg turning up his beans, Pie Town, New Mexico. He will next pile them for curing (LOC)
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- 58,476 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run (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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- 57,915 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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