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Young boy is Ciriakos Keiradimos, a young Greek shoe-shiner, working in shop at 511 Penn. Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Said to be 16 yrs. old, but is absolutely illiterate. Has been in this country only 2 months. Works until 9 P.M. every day and until 11 P.M. Saturdays. Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia

Men talking in front of saloon on lower Douglas Street, Omaha, Nebraska

Forty-ninth Street near Sixth Avenue, New York, New York

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Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway workmen in the roundhouse studying work schedule

Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. Otis Johnson, machinist's helper in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway roundhouse

Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. Otis Johnson, machinist's helper in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway roundhouse

Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. Train control mechanism installed on a truck wheel of an engine in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway roundhouse

Fort Madison, Iowa. General view of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad roundhouse and shops at Shopton

Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. Train control mechanism installed on a truck wheel of an engine in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway roundhouse

A black and white photo of a train engine. Office of War Information Photograph

Fort Madison, Iowa. General view of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad roundhouse and shops at Shopton

Fort Madison, Iowa. Wheeling an engine in the Shopton locomotive shops of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad

Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway workmen in the roundhouse studying work schedule

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01/01/1943
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Delano, Jack, 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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Las Vegas, Nevada. A rear view of some of the structures of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, showing part of the completed buildings already being used for the production of the lightest of all metals for use in aircraft and other wartime manufacturing. Two workmen are walking in the foreground

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Fort Madison, Lee County, Iowa

Workmen dig into the ground to install a new boundary security system around a Pave Paws radar site. The $2.2 million military construction project is about 25 percent complete and includes anti-tunneling protection, improved lighting systems with a back-up power generator, upgraded entry control points and a new security alarm room inside the site

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Workmen leaving at end of day

Clovis, New Mexico. One of the giant 5000 Class engines coming out of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad roundhouse for a run to Vaughn, New Mexico

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Roundhouse & Shops, Broadway & Spring Streets, Aurora, Kane County, IL

Working with a small steam drop hammer at the blacksmith shop in the Santa Fe R.R. shops, Topeka, Kansas

Robert French - A Royal Plate for a Royal Hotel in Valentia

Workmen at Shasta Dam. Shasta County, California

Robert French - Beware the Headless Engine Driver of Old Carnlough

Launching of 10,000 ton ships. Soon, one a week like this! The third 10,000 ton vessel to be launched from new shipyard on the East coast slides down the ways into the water. From the present one-every-two-weeks schedule, these "Virginia Dare" type vessels will shortly be produced at double speed; 90 ships in 90 weeks is the goal of the Maritime Commission

Fort Madison, Iowa. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad men playing cards in the reading room. The company maintains "reading rooms" at twenty division points which are houses containing recreation rooms, libraries and most of them also have sleeping quarters

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