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Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, can see the lights of her hometown, Berlin, far down in the valley

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Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, leaving to get water from a spring half a mile down the mountain. Beside her is her dog, Brenda, a constant companion on her lonely job

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, starting down the mountain to get water from a spring a half mile from the fire tower

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, getting her lunch from the air-cooled icebox under the floor of the tower, fifty feet above the ground

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, leaving to get water from a spring half a mile down the mountain. Beside her is her dog, Brenda, a constant companion on her lonely job

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, bound down the mountain a half mile to the spring where she gets her drinking water, and if there is no rain, her wash water too. On her back is strapped a metal water pack, which holds three gallons and weighs thirty pounds when full

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, along with her fire lookout duties on Pine Mountain, also spots planes for the Interceptor Command

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, starting down the mountain to get water from a spring a half mile from the fire tower

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Robert "Red" Mortensen, of Norwegian extraction, ski champion, serves as a machinist's mate in the U.S. Navy, while his wife, Barbara, serves the homefront by manning a fire tower on Pine Mountain overlooking her hometown of Berlin

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new hampshire coos county pine mountain safety film negatives gorham vicinity robert mortensen norwegian extraction norwegian extraction ski champion ski champion machinist mate navy wife barbara homefront fire tower fire tower pine mountain hometown berlin 1940 s 40 s us navy united states history library of congress
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01/01/1943
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Collier, John, 1913-1992, photographer
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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new hampshire coos county pine mountain safety film negatives gorham vicinity robert mortensen norwegian extraction norwegian extraction ski champion ski champion machinist mate navy wife barbara homefront fire tower fire tower pine mountain hometown berlin 1940 s 40 s us navy united states history library of congress