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Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Rifle "furniture" for the Army. Carefully selected walnut butts from which gunstocks will be made are stacked on a kiln truck for a drying operation that will reduce the moisture content to twelve percent. After drying, they will be ready for turning into rifle stocks. Louisville, Kentucky

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Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Rifle "furniture" for the Army. Carefully selected walnut butts from which gunstocks will be made are stacked on a kiln truck for a drying operation that will reduce the moisture content to twelve percent. After drying, they will be ready for turning into rifle stocks. Louisville, Kentucky

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Public domain photograph of 1930s working-class Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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Date

01/01/1942

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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer

United States. Office for Emergency Management.

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Louisville-Jefferson County, 38.20924, -85.70385

Google Map of 38.209237, -85.7038502

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