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A man standing in front of a log cabin. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

11671-24. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add More

Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex.

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[''Borinquen'', Puerto Rico], Southern Methodist University collection

Title: [''Borinquen'', Puerto Rico] ..Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie ..Date: 1939..Place: Puerto Rico..Physical Description: 1 transparency: film, color; 10 x 13 cm. ..File: ag1982_0234_2063_K_29_sm_ More

Infantryman with halftrack, a young soldier of the armed forces, holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer, Fort Knox, Ky. He likes the piece for its fine firing qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism.

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Main Street, Pie Town, New Mexico

Photograph shows building signs: Cafe, Store, General Merchandise. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Texas. As an NYA trainee at the Naval Air Base, he gets practical experience. After about eight weeks, he will go into civil service as a sheet metal worker

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Valley of Chacon, Mora County, N[ew] Mex[ico]

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Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day at the big construction operations for a new steel plant which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah

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Feeding an SNC advanced training plane its essential supply of gasoline is done by sailor mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Standing on the wing is Floyd Helphrey who came from Iowa to join the Navy early in the year. At right is W. Gardner of Illinois who used to be a crane operator

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Iron ore piles and blast furnaces, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation mill in Etna, Pennsylvania

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Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation,[Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.]

Photo shows eight women standing in front of a camp barber shop.

Worker inspecting a locomotive on a pit in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

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Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Massachusetts.

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Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas

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Cowling and control rods are added to motors for North American B-25 bombers as they move down the assembly line, North American, Inc., Inglewood, Calif

12002-38. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add More

M-3 tanks in action, Ft. Knox, Ky.

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A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif. The mechanism resembles a small cannon

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Living quarters and "juke joint" for migratory workers, a slack season; Belle Glade, Fla.

Photograph shows man standing to left with gun. Signs advertise Ice Cold Jax Ale Beer Stout and Ice Cold Coca Cola.

Distributing surplus commodities, St. Johns, Ariz.

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Houses which have been condemned by the Board of Health, but are still occupied by Negro Migratory workers, Belle Glade, Fla.

Photograph shows sign advertising 666 Colds Fevers and Sweet Scotch Snuff.

Casting a billet from an electric furnace, Chase Brass and Copper Co., Euclid, Ohio. Modern electric furnaces have helped considerably in speeding the production of brass and other copper alloys for national defense. Here the molten metal is poured or cast from the tilted furnace into a mold to form a billet. The billet later is worked into rods, tubes, wires or special shapes for a variety of uses

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Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C.

Photo shows sailor with Margaret Mary McCloskey (Source: L. Rozanek, daughter of McCloskey, 2013)

Part of string bean factory and field system, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J.

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Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.

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Church, Pie Town, New Mexico

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Rotunda of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

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Canning plant where peas are principal project, Milton-Freewater, Oregon

Photograph shows Rogers Canning Co. on building. Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

War production worker at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-housewife, age 49, now doing bench work on small gun parts. Son [is] Second L[ieutenan]t, Son-in-law, Capt[ain] in Army

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Migratory laborers outside of a "juke joint" during a slack season, Belle Glade, Fla.

Photograph shows man standing at left with a gun. Signs advertise Ice Cold Jax Ale Beer Stout, Royal Crown Cola, and Ice Cold Coca-Cola.

Marine Corps Major in winter uniform, W[orld] W[ar] II

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Transmission line towers and high tension lines that carry current generated at TVA's Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant, near Sheffield, Ala.

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[Field of daisies and orange flowers, possibly hawkweed, Vermont]

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Llano de San Juan, New Mexico, Catholic Church

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Train going over the hump at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

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Crane operator at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tennessee

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Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the school at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

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Belt Railway, looking toward the west yard of clearing yard, taken from bridge of hump, Chicago, Ill.

Photo shows the clearing yard at the Belt Railway Company of Chicago, taken from a structure above the hump tracks. (Source: Flickr Commons project and Bill Gustason, Chicago Area Rail Junctions, Hayford/Cleari More

Construction of Douglas Dam, TVA

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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont.

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Looking north from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains above Penasco, New Mexico

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Workers on the Liberator Bombers, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., [Fort Worth, Texas]

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Near White Plains, Ga. - images Black History Month

Photograph shows African American woman standing by building with Georgia state and United States flags.

A street in a town of the Virgin Islands, Christiansted, Saint Croix

Photo shows King Street, Christiansted, Saint Croix. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Greasing a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR.

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Formerly a sociology major at the University of Southern California, Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis (right) now "keeps 'em flyin'" at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. She is a supervisor under civil service in the Assembly and Repair Department. It is her job to maintain morale among the women by helping them solve housing and other personal problems. With her is Jo Ann Whittington, an NYA trainee at the plant

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Marine Corps barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C.

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World's Fair, railroad pageant. Woman with pink bonnet and parasol

The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, United States in 1939-1940. The 1939-1940 World's Fair was themed "The World of Tomorrow" and featured pavilions and exhibit More

World's Fair. Theme Center and statue of George Washington, viewed from Court of Peace

The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, United States in 1939-1940. The 1939-1940 World's Fair was themed "The World of Tomorrow" and featured pavilions and exhibit More

This sailor mechanic is inspecting a PBY plane at the Naval Air Base in Corpus Christi, Texas. The ship had been reconditioned by the Civil Service employees at the Assembly and Repair Department in the base

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Freight Depot of the U.S. Army consolidating station, Chicago, Ill.

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Marine lieutenant, glider pilot in training, at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.

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A train being pushed over the hump at the Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.

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Tank commander, Ft. Knox, Ky., World War Two

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C & NW RR, railroad workers cultivating a little Victory garden at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

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Distributing surplus commodities, St. Johns, Ariz.

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Men reading headlines posted in street-corner of Brockton Enterprise newspaper office, Brockton, Massachusetts.

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A Spanish-American village in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains dating back to 1700 which was once a sheep raising center, Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico. Due to the over-grazing and loss of range title, its inhabitants now work as migratory labor and at subsistence farming

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Gathering corn in the field, Pie Town, New Mexico

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Street scene, with building of the Southington News, Southington, Connecticut

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One of America's new warships of the air, a mighty YB-17 bomber, is pulled up at a bombardment squadron hangar, Langley Field, Virginia It is all set to taxi out to a runway and take off

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Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas

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Cherry orchards, farm lands and irrigation ditch at Emmett, Idaho

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Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Virginia]

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A town in Puerto Rico - An old photo of a small town on a hill

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Farm Security Administration borrower plowing his garden with one of the few plows used on the island, vicinity of Frederiksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands

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Plaza of Trampas, Taos Co., N[ew] Mex[ico]

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[A view looking northeast from the fire tower manned by Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, Gorham vicinity, N.H.]

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A marine Lieutenant, glider pilot in training at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.

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French village, a small settlement on St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands

11671-27. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add More

Employees at Mid-Continent Refinery, Tulsa, Okla.

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First snow of the season in the foothills of the Little Belt Mountains, Lewis and Clark National Forest, Meagher County, Montana

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After seven years in the Navy, J.D. Estes is considered an old sea salt by his mates at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

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[Man, possibly a farmer or agricultural laborer]

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Working on a locomotive at the 40th Street shop of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.

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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont.

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Landscape along the Santa Fe R.R., Willard, N[ew] Mex[ico]

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With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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Mounting motor [on a] Fairfax B-25 bomber, at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in [Inglewood], Calif.

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A mating operation on a transport plane just before it comes to the pre-assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

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Field of beans and farmstead of Bill Stagg, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico

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General store, Chacon, N[ew] Mex[ico]

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After the ore is weighed in the "Hewlett" [i.e. "Hulett"] machine it is dropped in the waiting hopper cars below; Pennsylvania R.R. iron ore docks, Cleveland, Ohio

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Section crew of the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul and Pacific R.R. at work, Bensenville, Ill

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Employees at North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembling the cowling on Allison motors for the P-51 fighter planes, Inglewood, Calif.

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C. M. St. P. & P. R.R., general view of part of Galewood yard, Chicago, Ill.

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[Row houses, corner of N and Union Streets S.W., Washington, D.C.]

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Bean canning factory in the field, Seabrook farm, Bridgeton, N.J.

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The countryside near the TVA site of the Douglas Dam, Tenn.

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Drill press operator, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pennsylvania

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Shasta dam under construction, California

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Marine Corps gliders in flight from Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.

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[Display of home-canned food]

Photo shows jars of yellow squash, peas, beets, and other vegetables. For notes identifying individual jars, see the copy of the photo in Flickr library_of_congress/2179131683/

Winner at the Delta County Fair, Colorado

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Working inside fuselage of a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

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Harvesting corn, Pie Town, New Mexico

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Marine Corps glider in flight, out of Parris Island, S.C.

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Marine lieutenant, glider pilot in training, ready for take-off at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. Power towing plane in background

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