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A black and white photo of an old machine. War Poduction. Office of War Information.

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Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches).

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket.

Negative had no edge number.

This image in a jacket marked "Killed"

To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have titles. There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Temp. note: owibatch6

Film copy on SIS roll 17, frame 727.

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1941 - 1945
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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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