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Apr. 7 | MAASA Joint Conference—April, 2011
Joint conference on material culture, April 7-11, 2011, UW-Madison

Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.
Jack Delano, photographer,
1943.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Verona, New Jersey. Sewing the edge of an American flag at the Annin Flag Company.
Marjory Collins, photographer,
1943.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Production A-31 (“Vengeance”) dive bombers. Checking part to blueprint. Here a pair of factory workers check the blueprint with a part which will go into the “Vengeance” dive bombers made at Vultee’s Nashville Division. The “Vengeance” (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force).
Alfred T. Palmer, photographer,
1943.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Fumiko Hirata and Mr. Matsumoto,
Ansel Adams, photographer,
1943.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
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