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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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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton, Iowa (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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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
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• Weavers at work (LOC)

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• Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Miss. (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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• Migratory laborers outside of a "juke joint" during a slack season, Belle Glade, Fla. (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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• Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Chopping cotton on rented land, near White Plains, Greene County, Ga. (LOC)

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• Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company's plant, Long Beach, Calif. Sand bags for protection against air raid form the background. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at

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• Day-laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Cultivating sugar cane on the Virgin Islands Company land, vicinity of Bethlehem, St. Croix (LOC)

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• Planting corn along a river in northeastern Tennessee (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Carefully trained women inspectors check and inspect cargo transport innerwings before they are assembled on the fuselage, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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• Bayou Bourbeau plantation operated by Bayou Bourbeau Farmstead Association, a cooperative established through the cooperation of FSA, Natchitoches, La. (LOC)

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• Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)

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• Girl inspector confers with a worker as she makes a a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Negro migratory workers by a shack, Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Metal parts are placed on masonite by this woman employee before they slide under the multi-ton hydropress, North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)

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• Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)

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• Families of migratory workers in front of their row shelters, FSA ... labor camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC)

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• Sugar cane workers resting, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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• Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)

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• Sorting and packing tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative Tomato Growers Association, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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• Sugar cane workers resting at the noon hour, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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• Two women employees of North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembling a section of a wing for a P-51 fighter plane (LOC)

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• [Men working on telephone lines, probably near a TVA dam hydroelectric plant] (LOC)

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• C & NW RR, working on a locomotive at the 40th Street railroad shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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• An employee in the drill-press section of North American's huge machine shop runs mounting holes in a large dural casting, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, a

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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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• B-25 bomber planes at the North American Aviation, Incorporated being hauled along an outdoor assembly line with an "International" tractor, Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)

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• Sugar cane workers, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Workers at the roundhouse of the C & NW RR Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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• The Ball Team. Composed mainly of glass workers. Indiana. Aug. 1908. L.W.H. [Lewis Wickes Hine]. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1908
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• Working inside fuselage of a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

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• Welders making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)

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• Constructing a building on the site of a new steel mill which will soon turn out steel for the war needs, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah (LOC)

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• Rice and papaya in the lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico? (LOC)

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• On North American's outdoor assembly line, a painter cleans the tail section of a P-51 fighter prior to spraying the olive-drab camouflage of the U.S. Army, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. (LOC)

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• Rice and papaya in the lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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• Sugar cane workers resting, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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• Lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Puerto Rico? (LOC)

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• Sugar cane workers, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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• Frances Eggleston, aged 23, came from Oklahoma, used to do office work. Removing paper from pilot's window(?), Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

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• Employees at Mid-Continent Refinery, Tulsa, Okla. (LOC)

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• Making wiring assemblies at a junction box on the fire wall for the right engine of a B-25 bomber, North American Aviation, Inc., [Inglewood], Calif. Forward of this wall will be mounted one of the two 1,700-horsepower Wright Whirlwind engines which carry

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