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Installing an engine at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

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WWII color photographs. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs from the Library of Congress. The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4x5 inches. Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The pictures focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working.

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airplane industry world war engines texas fort worth transparencies color engine aircraft corporation plant aircraft corporation plant american workers in color ww 2 in color economic and social conditions workers worker kodachrome united states history library of congress
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01/01/1939
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Hollem, Howard R., photographer
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American Workers in Color

WWII color photographs.
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Fort Worth (Tex.) ,  32.72528, -97.32083
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Library of Congress
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