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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. No time out for eating on an overtime job. Making bomb sights comes easy to him, for he has had long experience in precision work at a commercial Kentucky watch case factory now entirely on a war production basis. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. No time out for eating on an overtime job. Making bomb sights comes easy to him, for he has had long experience in precision work at a commercial Kentucky watch case factory now entirely on a war production basis. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/01/1942

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Contributors

Palmer, Alfred T., photographer

United States. Office for Emergency Management.

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Location

Louisville-Jefferson County, 38.20924, -85.70385

Google Map of 38.209237, -85.7038502

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Library of Congress

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