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6-year Old Jewel Walker
6-year Old Jewel Walker. Location: Comanche County--[Geronimo], Oklahoma,
Lewis W. Hine, photographer,
1916.
Prints and Photographers, Library of Congress
Production A-31 ("Vengeance") Dive Bombers
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
Four Young Men Standing Around a Large Piece of Machinery in a Workshop
Four Young Men Standing Around a Large Piece of Machinery in a Workshop.
Chicago Daily New, Inc.,
1928.
Chicago Historical Society / Library of Congress
“Labor, Work, Action”
“Labor, Work, Action,”
Hannah Arendt,
typescript lecture, 1967.
The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress,
Series: Speeches and Writings File, 1923-1975.
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
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