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B & H Aircraft, Eastern Pkwy., Farmingdale, Long Island. Inner skin subassembly

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Public domain photograph of New York, midcentury American architecture, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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01/01/1961
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Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971, photographer
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farmingdale
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Exhausted after wage-hour fight in senate. Washington, D.C., June 13. Senator Allen Ellender Democrat of Louisana and onetime Lieutenant of the late Huey Long, is snapped by news cameramen as he rests in his office after leading the victorious fight for the compromise in the wage-hour bill. The compromise is expected to make wage differentials possible for many southern industries. He has threatened a filibuster unless the south got what it wanted in the measure, 6/13/38

Parkway and Skyway, New York City to Long Island

LANGLEY FIELD, Virginia FRENCH NIEUPORT PLANE, TYPE 17, WITH CAPT. J.C. BARTOLF AND LT. E. LeMAITRE

Conversion. Toy factory. Stephanie Cewe and Ann Manemeit, have turned their skill from peacetime production of toy trains to the assembly of parachute flare casings for the armies of democracy. Along with other workers in this Eastern plant, they have turned their skill to the vital needs of the day, and in many cases have seen to it that the machinery they used to use does Uncle Sam's most important work today. Here, they are assembling parachute flare casings, using the same electric screwdrivers they formerly used to assemble the locomotives of toy trains. A. C. Gilbert Company, New Haven, Connecticut

Working on wing of Consolidated Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. plant, Fort Worth, Texas

[Men at airplane door] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Green's Ledge Lighthouse, Long Island Sound, Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT

North American B-25 bomber is prepared for painting on the outside assembly line, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F bomber is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the south Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men -- and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

Ford Motor Company Long Beach Assembly Plant, Oil House, 700 Henry Ford Avenue, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA

Two women workers are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes into the manufacture of the "Vengeance" (A-31) dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the R.A.F. and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base; Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department, Corpus Christi, Texas

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