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Woman at work on motor, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

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12002-39.

Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

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01/01/1939
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douglas aircraft company airplane industry women employment world war engines california long beach transparencies color farm security administration office of war information color photographs alfred t palmer photo ultra high resolution high resolution kodachrome film transparencies united states history aircraft 1940s aircrafts 1940 s library of congress