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Fannie and Friends: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 01/31/2008 - 12:24am.
April 1942. De Land pool aircraft construction class. Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over Central Florida are learning war work. Typical are those above in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia County Vocational School. Left to right are Helen Cook, a former county courthouse clerk with a brother in the Army; Ethel Chandler, whose husband is an Army lieutenant; Martha Adams, former nurse and now a housewife; Fannie Branum, housewife; Mabel McClintock, secretary and daughter of a retired Army officer; and Patricia Blair, a housewife with a brother in the Air Corps. View full size. Medium format safety negative by Howard Hollem for the Office of War Information.
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Sci-Fi movie
Submitted by k2 on Thu, 01/31/2008 - 11:27am.
"Invasion of the Bee People," obviously! (Medium format safety negative by Howard Pollen...)
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