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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Volume for victory. His skill in the making of luxury items is an asset for a Kentucky watch case factory now producing compass cases, fuse baffles, gun parts and other war essentials. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Volume for victory. His skill in the making of luxury items is an asset for a Kentucky watch case factory now producing compass cases, fuse baffles, gun parts and other war essentials. 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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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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