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The entire congregation of Friends church (Quaker). Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon

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Field-workers, Amer. Sumatra Tobacco Co. The Supt. called the boys out to the end of the rows and we found 47 boys from 9 to 15 years old, all working but could not get hold of them all. The Supt. said, "We have to hire boys because we can't get men to do the work." Many of them live in Hartford, Conn., and go back and forth on the trolley. Location: S[outh] Windsor, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

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Dearborn, Michigan. A typical worker in the River Rouge Ford plant

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Detroit, Michigan. Roscoe Smith, superintendent of the Willow Run Ford plant

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Three defense workers from Flint, Michigan, now living in Edgewater Park and working in the Ford bomber plant near Ypsilanti, Michigan

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01/01/1941
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Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer
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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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Good men, good machines, good materials mean good gears for the rear axles of halftrac scout cars now being produced for our Army in an Ohio truck plant. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Metal scrap salvage. The rural scrap collection center at Dexter, Michigan was the scene of much activity as the drive sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB) gained headway. The first load dumped here was followed by many others as farmyards yielded tons of old iron and rubber that put money into the pockets of local farmers and much valuable material back into use

New Haven Rail Yard, Central Steam Plant and Oil Storage, Vicinity of Union Avenue, New Haven, New Haven County, CT

The chassis of an Army halftrac scout car get a workout. When this test driver at a large Midwest plant has put the machine through its paces, he'll know if the machine meets the exacting specifications of the Army. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Manuel McLandon with some of his livestock, Flint River Farms, Georgia

Arlington, Virginia. Auto refinishing plant. Tacking down new top on an old car

Detroit, Michigan. Roscoe Smith, superintendent of the Willow Run Ford plant

[Gymnasium, Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti, Michigan]

Manuel McLandon with some of his livestock, Flint River Farms, Georgia

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. A building truckload of discarded automobiles stripped of all usable parts and non-ferrous materials is delivered to a scrap iron dealer's processing plant in Baltimore, Maryland. This steel will be baled in huge hydraulic presses and sent to steel mills to feed the ever hungry furnaces now turning out steel for the national defense production program

Odice Brock working in his garden. Flint River Farms, Georgia, near Montezuma

Arlington, Virginia. Auto refinishing plant. Tacking down new roadster top

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