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Woman @ Desk
Woman @ Desk,
Harry Mellon Rhoads, photographer,
[between 1920 and 1930?].
Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library / 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
Fumiko Hirata and Mr. Matsumoto
Fumiko Hirata and Mr. Matsumoto,
Ansel Adams, photographer,
1943.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
“Lightnin‘“ Washington
“Lightnin‘“ Washington, an African American prisoner, singing with his group in the woodyard at Darrington State Farm, Texas,
Alan Lomax, photographer,
April, 1934.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
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