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A black and white photo of two women working in a factory, possibly related to: Migrant girls working in cherry canning plant, Berrien County, Mich.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Florence Strand inspects hydraulic assemblies for war plane landing gear at the Inglewood, California plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. She took her husband's place when he joined the Army. North American gives preference to the wives of men in the service. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

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San Juan (vicinity), Puerto Rico. In a needlework factory

Apprentice warper Timothy Cherry "making a warp"; this warp has 2,080 "ends" (threads); the large, circular warping frame was manufactured in Paterson by the Benjamin Eastwood Co.

Wheelwrights Dale Thibault and Harvey Howes, Miles City, Montana

Apprentice warper Timothy Cherry at the warping frame on the second floor of the plant; there are 2,080 "ends" (threads) on the frame.

Production. 105 millimeter shells. Plumbing fixtures came off these assembly lines in peace time, but today Giles Knowles and his fellow workers produce 105 millimeter shells in a Midwest plant now converted 100 percent to war production. Knowles, a minor league baseball pitcher, broke a league record for strike-out; now he's out to break the company record for shell production (Manitowac Shipyards)

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Inspection of more than a thousand separate tubing pieces composing the fuel, hydraulic, de-icing and other systems in a bomber is a highly important job. This young employee at the giant Willow Run plant uses her tiny flashlight to discover any internal defects in the tubing. Ford plant, Willow Run

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Michigan photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

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01/01/1940
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Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer
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Berrien Springs (Mich.) ,  41.94639, -86.33889
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Library of Congress
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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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