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General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

General view of one of the...

 
Children gathering potatoes on a large farm, vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. Schools do not open until the potatoes are harvested (LOC)

Children gathering potatoes on a...

 
Going to town on Saturday afternoon, Greene Co., Ga. (LOC)

Going to town on Saturday...

 
[Grand Grocery Co.], Lincoln, Neb. (LOC)

[Grand Grocery Co.], Lincoln,...

 
Farmland in the Catskill country, in New York State (LOC)

Farmland in the Catskill...

 
Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies (LOC)

Woman aircraft worker, Vega...

 
Marine Corps Major in dress white uniform, W[orld] W[ar] II (LOC)

Marine Corps Major in dress...

 
Marine Corps Major in summer uniform, W[orld] W[ar] II (LOC)

Marine Corps Major in summer...

 
Marine Corps Captain in dress blue uniform, W[orld] W[ar] II (LOC)

Marine Corps Captain in dress...

 
Marine Corps Major in winter uniform, W[orld] W[ar] II (LOC)

Marine Corps Major in winter...

 
Smoke stacks (LOC)

Smoke stacks (LOC)

 
Smoke stacks (LOC)

Smoke stacks (LOC)

 
Smoke stacks (LOC)

Smoke stacks (LOC)

 
Smoke stacks (LOC)

Smoke stacks (LOC)

 
Virgin redwood, 864 years old (LOC)

Virgin redwood, 864 years old (LOC)

 
[Man shovelling ears of dried corn from wagon through feed store window] (LOC)

[Man shovelling ears of dried...

 
[Medal of Honor] (LOC)

[Medal of Honor] (LOC)

 
[U.S. Army Medal of Honor with neck band] (LOC)

[U.S. Army Medal of Honor with...

 
C & NW RR, tank cars going over the hump at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

C & NW RR, tank cars going...

 
Cultivating sugar cane on the Virgin Islands Company land, vicinity of Bethlehem, St. Croix (LOC)

Cultivating sugar cane on the...

 
Crane operator at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tennessee (LOC)

Crane operator at TVA's Douglas...

 
Farmland along the upper Delaware River in New York state (LOC)

Farmland along the upper...

 
Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Mass. (LOC)

Children in the tenement...

 
[Electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama] (LOC)

[Electric phosphate smelting...

 
[Garden of Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)

[Garden of Pan American Union...

 
Santa Fe R.R. trains going through Cajon Pass in the San Bernardino Mountains, Cajon, Calif. On the right, streamliner "Chief" going west; in the background, on the left, a freight train with a helper engine, going east. Santa Fe trip (LOC)

Santa Fe R.R. trains going...

 
Houses which have been condemned by the Board of Health but are still occupied by Negro migratory workers, Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)

Houses which have been condemned...

 
Guide at Little Norway, Blue Mounds, Wis. (LOC)

Guide at Little Norway, Blue...

 
Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run (LOC)

Inspecting of landing wheel of...

 
Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run (LOC)

Inspecting of landing wheel of...

 
Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run (LOC)

Installing one of the 4 motors...

 
Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees to view Allied tanks and half tracks pass through the Arc du Triomphe, after Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944 (LOC)

Crowds of French patriots line...

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

Carefully trained women...

 
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

This girl in a glass house is...

 
Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

Women at work on C-47 Douglas...

 
Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

Lieutenant "Mike"...

 
Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

Women are trained to do precise...

 
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

Women workers install fixtures...

 
Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

Woman machinist, Douglas...

 
A fast, hard-hitting new A-20 [i.e., B-25] attack bomber is brought for a test hop to the flight line at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company (LOC)

A fast, hard-hitting new A-20...

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

Riveter at work at the Douglas...

 
An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

An A-20 bomber being riveted by...

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

Annette del Sur publicizing...

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

Annette del Sur publicizing...

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

Annette del Sur publicizing...

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

Annette del Sur public[iz]ing...

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

Annette del Sur public[iz]ing...

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

Annette del Sur publicizing...

 
Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1,200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers, Long Beach, Calif. Picture taken at the Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs man

Flexible performance of C-47...

 
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)

A noontime rest for a...

 
Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

Girl worker at lunch also...

 
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)

Two assembly line workers at the...

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

Women at work on bomber, Douglas...

 
Woman at work on motor, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

Woman at work on motor, Douglas...

 
Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the school at the Douglas Aircraft Company 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 (

Women become skilled shop...

 
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") as

Men and women make efficient...

 
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

Women workers install fixtures...

 
A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F bomber is a later model o

A girl riveting machine operator...

 
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

Lunchtime brings a few minutes...

 
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)

Girl inspector confers with a...

 
F.W. Hunter, Army test pilot, Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

F.W. Hunter, Army test pilot,...

 
With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

With careful Douglas training,...

 
American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F

American mothers and sisters,...

 
Girl inspectors at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company make a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes (LOC)

Girl inspectors at the Long...

 
Women are trained as engine mechanics in thorough Douglas training methods, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

Women are trained as engine...

 
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)

A noontime rest for a...

 
Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

Working with the electric wiring...

 
A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company (LOC)

A noontime rest for a...

 
The careful hands of women are trained in precise aircraft engine installation duties at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

The careful hands of women are...

 
[Kitchen utensils hanging below a spice rack with mint, caraway, thyme, and sage jars] (LOC)

[Kitchen utensils hanging below...

 
[Display of home-canned food] (LOC)

[Display of home-canned food] (LOC)

 
Portrait of a farm boy (LOC)

Portrait of a farm boy (LOC)