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In the material preparation department, this woman employee uses a router to drill holes in a dozen sheets of metal at once with a master template

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In the material preparation department, this woman employee uses a router to drill holes in a dozen sheets of metal at once with a master template

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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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Date

01/01/1942

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Contributors

Palmer, Alfred T., photographer

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Location

Inglewood, 33.96168, -118.35313

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Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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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