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[Car in front of Shulman's Market on N at Union St. S.W., Washington, D.C.

[Car in front of Shulman's Market on N at Union St. S.W., Washington, ...

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[Sylvia Sweets Tea Room, corner of School and Main streets, Brockton, Massachusetts.]

[Sylvia Sweets Tea Room, corner of School and Main streets, Brockton, ...

Photograph shows sign in foreground: "School St."; upstairs windows: "Geo. L. Wainright Law Office;" below: "Sylvia Sweets Tea Room."

Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, now [she is the] only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, ...

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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

Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters fo...

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Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. Delta

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. Delta

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Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kan[sas]

Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kan[s...

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Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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Scene at square dance, McIntosh county, Oklahoma

Scene at square dance, McIntosh county, Oklahoma

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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

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tan...

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Operating a machine for putting tops on crates at a co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip

Operating a machine for putting tops on crates at a co-op orange packi...

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Construction at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn.

Construction at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn.

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Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga.

Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga.

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Gus Worke, a farmer who came from Germany 40 years ago, Southington, Conn.

Gus Worke, a farmer who came from Germany 40 years ago, Southington, C...

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Serving up the barbeque at the Pie Town, New Mexico, Fair

Serving up the barbeque at the Pie Town, New Mexico, Fair

Photo shows in background from right to left: a 1938 Chevrolet, a 1938 Pontiac, and a 1940 Ford. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Homesteader feeding his daughter at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair free barbeque

Homesteader feeding his daughter at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair free...

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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

Mary Louise Stepan, 21, used to be a waitress. She has a brother in th...

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Mrs. Doris Duke, who is 26 and a mother of one child, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Duke is a civil service worker in the A[ssembly] and R[epair] dept. at the Navy Air Base (shot - reconditioning spark plugs)

Mrs. Doris Duke, who is 26 and a mother of one child, Corpus Christi, ...

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Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, with his work burros in front of his barn, Pie Town, New Mexico

Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, with his work burros in front of his barn...

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Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, Calif.

Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beac...

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Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Miss.

Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Miss.

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Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. Cabbie Coleman, former housewife, works at western aircraft plant. Installing of oxygen racks above the flight deck

Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft ...

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Yardmaster in railroad yards, Amarillo Texas

Yardmaster in railroad yards, Amarillo Texas

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A.S. Gerdee, of 3251 Maypole(?) Street, working as a switchman at Proviso yard of C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.

A.S. Gerdee, of 3251 Maypole(?) Street, working as a switchman at Prov...

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John L. Walter, conductor at Proviso yard of the C&NWRR. Mr. Walter has been employed on the railroad for 45 years, 32 of them as conductor. The red nose and cheeks are due to the below zero weather outside. Chicago, Ill.

John L. Walter, conductor at Proviso yard of the C&NWRR. Mr. Walter ha...

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At the Vermont state fair, Rutland

At the Vermont state fair, Rutland

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Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Air...

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Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas

Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas

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Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas

Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas

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Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill; C & NW RR; L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the roundhouse at the Proviso yard

Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill; C & NW RR; L. Logan, of West Chicago...

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The yardmaster's office at the receiving yard, North Proviso(?), C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.

The yardmaster's office at the receiving yard, North Proviso(?), C & N...

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Annette del Sur public[iz]ing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Annette del Sur public[iz]ing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Airc...

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Thomas Madrigal greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse, Rock Island R.R., Blue Island, Ill.

Thomas Madrigal greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse, Rock Island R...

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Putting the nose section of a mighty transport plane in place in the fuselage mating fixture at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Putting the nose section of a mighty transport plane in place in the f...

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C. & N.W. R.R., women wipers at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant "H' class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa

C. & N.W. R.R., women wipers at the roundhouse cleaning one of the gia...

Photograph shows Marcella Hart at left, Mrs. Elibia Siematter at right.

Men in front of outdoor fire, Pie Town Fair, New Mexico

Men in front of outdoor fire, Pie Town Fair, New Mexico

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Jack Whinery, homesteader, repairing fence which he built with slabs, Pie Town, New Mexico

Jack Whinery, homesteader, repairing fence which he built with slabs, ...

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Farm owned by James Pompey, who 20 years ago came from Italy on the advice of a brother, Southington, Connecticut. People of Finnish, Slav, German, and Polish extraction help him to farm it

Farm owned by James Pompey, who 20 years ago came from Italy on the ad...

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Fitting the tail of a transport plane to the wing center section in the fuselage mating fixture at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Fitting the tail of a transport plane to the wing center section in th...

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Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians in the armed service, Los Angeles, Calif. Thomas Graham, a member of the Victory Corps at Polytechnic High School, is learning to use a sextant to determine longitude and latitude

Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians ...

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A Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena Island, S.C.

A Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena Island, S.C.

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Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga.

Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga.

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Crowd eating free barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Crowd eating free barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

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Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she lives. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide a college education for her young nephew

Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a scul...

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Loading oranges into a refrigerator car at a co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip

Loading oranges into a refrigerator car at a co-op orange packing plan...

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Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," near the Court House, Campton, Wolfe County, Ky.

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," nea...

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Boy building a model airplane while other children look on, FSA labor camp, Robstown, Tex.

Boy building a model airplane while other children look on, FSA labor ...

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Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, tying up cauliflower, Pie Town, New Mexico

Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, tying up cauliflower, Pie Town, New Mexic...

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On North American's outdoor assembly line, employees rush a B-25 to completion, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inglewood, Calif.

On North American's outdoor assembly line, employees rush a B-25 to co...

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Driving calves into the corral for roping at the rodeo of the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Driving calves into the corral for roping at the rodeo of the Pie Town...

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Men of the community of Pie Town, New Mexico eating at the barbeque

Men of the community of Pie Town, New Mexico eating at the barbeque

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[Shulman's market, on N at Union Street S.W., Washington, D.C.]

[Shulman's market, on N at Union Street S.W., Washington, D.C.]

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Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircra...

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James Lynch, a roundhouse worker, C & NW RR [Proviso yard]

James Lynch, a roundhouse worker, C & NW RR [Proviso yard]

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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 the B-25 through performances up to Altitudes of 25,000 feet

Making wiring assemblies at a junction box on the fire wall for the ri...

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[Shulman's Market at the southeast corner of N Street and Union Street S.W., Washington, D.C., with a 1931 Chevrolet car parked in front]

[Shulman's Market at the southeast corner of N Street and Union Street...

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Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Air...

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Distributing surplus commodities, St. Johns, Ariz.

Distributing surplus commodities, St. Johns, Ariz.

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Farmers and townspeople in center of town on Court Day, Compton [i.e. Campton], Ky.

Farmers and townspeople in center of town on Court Day, Compton [i.e. ...

Photograph shows awning sign "Tyler's Place," and window sign: "Tyler's Store Dry Goods."

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

Agnes Cliemka, age 23, married and husband may be going into the servi...

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Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.

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Learning to work a cutting machine, these two NYA employees receive training to fit them for important work, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks they will be eligible for civil service jobs at the Naval Air Base

Learning to work a cutting machine, these two NYA employees receive tr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Norris with homegrown cabbage, one of the many vegetables which the homesteaders grow in abundance, Pie Town, New Mexico

Mrs. Norris with homegrown cabbage, one of the many vegetables which t...

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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 this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber, and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

An experimental scale model of the B-25 plane is prepared for wind tunnel tests in the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. This plant produced the B-25 bomber

An experimental scale model of the B-25 plane is prepared for wind tun...

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Working on the cab of a locomotive brought in for repair at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill.

Working on the cab of a locomotive brought in for repair at the C & NW...

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Negro migratory workers by a "juke joint" (?), Belle Glade, Fla.

Negro migratory workers by a "juke joint" (?), Belle Glade, Fla.

Photograph shows signs advertise Atlantic Ale and Beer, Royal Crown Cola and Nehi.

Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Wort...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kw., which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 150,000 kw. The reservoir at the dam adds 370,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVA's hydroele...

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Washing one of the Santa Fe R.R. 54 hundred horse power diesel freight locomotives in the roundhouse, Argentine, Kansas. Argentine yard is at Kansas City, Kansas

Washing one of the Santa Fe R.R. 54 hundred horse power diesel freight...

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Lowering an engine in place in assembling a C-87 transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Lowering an engine in place in assembling a C-87 transport plane at th...

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Jim Norris and wife, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico

Jim Norris and wife, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico

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Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam, Tennessee (TVA)

Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam, Tennessee (TVA)

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Farmers and townspeople in center of town on Court day, Campton, Ky.

Farmers and townspeople in center of town on Court day, Campton, Ky.

Photograph shows sign under porch: Post Office Compton, Ky.; sign over porch: Ale 81.

A Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena's Island, S.C.

A Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena's Island, S.C.

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Young woman at the community laundry on Saturday afternoon, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex.

Young woman at the community laundry on Saturday afternoon, FSA ... ca...

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Farm Security Administration borrower cultivating his sugar cane field, vicinity of Frederiksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands. He lives in one of the homestead houses

Farm Security Administration borrower cultivating his sugar cane field...

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Bill Stagg turning up his beans, Pie Town, New Mexico. He will next pile them for curing

Bill Stagg turning up his beans, Pie Town, New Mexico. He will next pi...

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Homesteader and his children eating barbeque at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Homesteader and his children eating barbeque at the Pie Town, New Mexi...

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Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad conductor George E. Burton and engineer J.W. Edwards comparing time before pulling out of Corwith railroad yard for Chillicothe, Illinois; Chicago, Ill.

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad conductor George E. Burton and...

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Friends meeting at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Friends meeting at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

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Cutting the pies and cakes at the barbeque dinner, Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Cutting the pies and cakes at the barbeque dinner, Pie Town, New Mexic...

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A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's Proviso yard

A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern ...

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Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," near the Court House, Campton, Wolfe County, Ky.

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," nea...

Photograph shows Court Day activity. Public domain photograph - historical image of Kentucky, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Camouflage class at N[ew] Y[ork] University, where men and women are preparing for jobs in the Army or in industry, New York, N.Y. This model has been camouflaged and photographed. The girl is correcting oversights detected in the camouflaging of a model defense plant

Camouflage class at N[ew] Y[ork] University, where men and women are p...

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Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas

Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas

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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, Wisconsin

Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service. ...

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Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga.

Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga.

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Men and women make efficient operating teams on riveting and other jobs at the Douglas Aircraft plant, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Men and women make efficient operating teams on riveting and other job...

Photo shows a woman and man working on a Douglas Aircraft Company cockpit shell identified as a C-47 based on the window outline. Although sometimes called a 'biscuit bomber, 'the plane was for transport. (Sou... More

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

Two women employees of North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembli...

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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.

Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service, ...

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Chopping cotton on rented land, near White Plains, Greene County, Ga.

Chopping cotton on rented land, near White Plains, Greene County, Ga.

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In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is finished on a huge turret lathe, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is fini...

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Construction at Douglas Dam (TVA), Tenn.

Construction at Douglas Dam (TVA), Tenn.

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Nick Grillo, as a boy in Italy, dreamed of America and its opportunity, Southington, Connecticut. He saved enough money for boat passage to this country. Today, after 22 years, he is one of the world's outstanding flori-culturists, developer of the famous "Thornless Rose," an age-old dream of his craft

Nick Grillo, as a boy in Italy, dreamed of America and its opportunity...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy, child of a migrant worker, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rodeo at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Rodeo at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

School children singing, Pie Town, New Mexico

School children singing, Pie Town, New Mexico

Photograph shows signsCraig Motor Co., Standard Oil, and Magdalena Drug Co.

Fruit wagon at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. There is no fruit grown in this section and the people depend on outside truckers to bring it in

Fruit wagon at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. There is no fruit grown ...

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Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico

Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico

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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Ven...

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Early stages of construction work at the TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn.

Early stages of construction work at the TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn.

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