File:2179136893 - Flickr - The Library of Congress.jpg
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Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer. Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17 which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men, and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions 1942 Oct. 1 transparency : color. Notes: Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide ... Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 388. Subjects: Douglas Aircraft Company Airplane industry Women--Employment World War, 1939-1945 Bombers Assembly-line methods United States--California--Long Beach Format: Transparencies--Color Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-39 (DLC) 93845501 General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp.fsac.1a03058 hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.03058Call Number: LC-USW36-128 |
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| Date | Taken on 1 January 1939, 00:00 | ||
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| Author | The Library of Congress from Washington, DC, United States | ||
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The Library of Congress @ Flickr Commons | ||
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This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright. | 
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by the Library of Congress at https://flickr.com/photos/8623220@N02/2179136893. It was reviewed on 2021-03-29 02:00:22 by FlickreviewR 2 and confirmed to be the same image. Library of Congress images should not be tagged with {{Flickrreview}} but with {{LOC-image}}. Images posted to Flickr are also generally of lower resolution than available from LOC directly. Please consider reuploading the image in a higher resolution from the original Library of Congress website. |
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