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Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies (LOC), originally uploaded by The Library of Congress.

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A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company (LOC)


Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.

A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company

Two little girls in a park near Union Station, Washington, D.C. (LOC)


Two little girls in a park near Union Station, Washington, D.C.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Rural school girl, San Augustine County, Texas (LOC)


Vachon, John,, 1914-1975,, photographer.

Rural school girl, San Augustine County, Texas

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35423

Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas (LOC)


Vachon, John,, 1914-1975,, photographer.

Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas

Call Number: LC-USW36-831

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 (


Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.

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Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)


Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.

Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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