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Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Washington, D.C.

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Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1943
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Bubley, Esther, photographer
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Southern Pines (N.C.) ,  35.17417, -79.39222
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Library of Congress
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http://www.loc.gov/
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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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[Street scene, Washington, D.C.]

Bus transportation, in [...] of bus

Pouring gasoline into combine engine. Walla Walla County, Washington

Warner Robins, Georgia. Air Service Command, Robins Field. Master Sergeant H.W. Halvorsen, an instrument repair man, checking instruments at electrical test panel. Sergeant Halvorsen comes from Washington, D.C.

New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the new oversize bus trailer which holds 141 persons and may be the answer to the problem of transporting war workers to outlying defense plants. Designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies, the trailer rolls on eight standard truck size tires, with the usual six tires on the power unit. The truck trailer unit as a whole is fifty-five feet long

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Arrangements are made by phone, and Don's car is left at home. The few miles left in those tires of his can be used for emergency, or the car may be put completely out of service for the duration. Here, Don leaves the plant ready for the trip home under new car pooling arrangement

Negro dishwasher. Investment Pharmacy, Washington, D.C.

Mural "Apple Industry," by Nicolai Cikovsky at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.

Greyhound Bus Station, 1200 Blanding Street, Columbia, Richland County, SC

The air raid protective services. "Take over" is a cardinal rule in the event of air raids. Here an air raid warden directs the evacuation of a public bus, notifying the passengers where they may find shelter

Weapons from waste. Everytime street railway tracks are ripped out to make way for a bus line, it means additional tons of steel for the defense of democracy. Unused trolley and railroad and railway equipment and rails will provide much of the scrap steel needed for defense production

A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat, possibly related to: Harvest hand in the wheat fields, Walla Walla County, Washington

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