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Electronics technician, Goodyear Aircraft Corp., Akron, Ohio

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WWII color photographs. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs from the Library of Congress. The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4x5 inches. Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The pictures focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working.

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goodyear aircraft corp world war industry women employment ohio akron transparencies color akron ohio electronics technician electronics technician goodyear aircraft corp american workers in color economic and social conditions workers worker kodachrome history of akron ohio akron free images akron photographs united states history library of congress
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01/01/1939
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
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American Workers in Color

WWII color photographs.
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Akron (Ohio) ,  41.08139, -81.51889
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Library of Congress
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Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These girls are stitching inner ply to a building form used in the manufacture of self-sealing tanks. Goodrich

John Kelseh, blacksmith, at his forge in the blacksmith shop at the roundhouse, Rock Island R.R., Blue Island, Ill.

Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. A woman plane construction technician fits the bombsight mount of a B-17F heavy bomber nearing completion at the Long Beach, California, plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company. The mount will carry the world's deadliest bombsight. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model 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 with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe, commander-in-chief of the La Roe family war production army at Eustis, Florida, used to be an automobile mechanic. He came from Akron, Ohio in 1920. He is drilling a much needed gear for the De Land community pool's million-dollar war contract. Eight machines work at full speed in his three-car-garage; all of them operated by his wife, sister, both grandmothers, his son, and one helper

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goodyear aircraft corp world war industry women employment ohio akron transparencies color akron ohio electronics technician electronics technician goodyear aircraft corp american workers in color economic and social conditions workers worker kodachrome history of akron ohio akron free images akron photographs united states history library of congress