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October 1940. "Durham, North Carolina. Five Points, center of city, with Chesterfield cigarette factories in background." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
October 1940. "Durham, North Carolina. Five Points, center of city, with Chesterfield cigarette factories in background." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
July 1938. "Russian Orthodox Church. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1936. "One of the largest sawmills in the world. Employs many of the Resettlement Administration homesteaders at Longview, Cowlitz County, Washington." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
1938. Washington, D.C. "400-subject two-way postage stamp perforating machine at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.
The Mississippi River circa 1905. "St. Anthony's Falls and flour mills at Minneapolis." Panorama made from three 8x10 glass negatives. View full size.
October 1942. The Consolidated Aircraft Corp. plant in Fort Worth, Texas. "Production. Halfway down the final line of a Western aircraft plant at which B-24 bombers and C-87 transports are made. This new transport, an adaptation of the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87 and carries one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country." Photo by Howard Hollem for the Office of War Information. View full size.
January 1942. Ensenada, Puerto Rico. "One of the mills in the South Puerto Rico Sugar Company plant." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
January 1942. "Yauco, Puerto Rico, In a small cigar factory. These cigars are made for local consumption and sell for about two cents." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
November 1941. "In the Union Point Manufacturing Company hosiery mill, Greene County, Georgia." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
December 1941. "San Juan, Puerto Rico. In a dress factory." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
December 1941. San Juan, Puerto Rico. "Women in the needlework factory." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
November 1941. "Sock driers at the hosiery mill in Greene County, Georgia." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
September 1941. "One of the machines that grind wood into pulp at the Mississquoi Corporation paper mill at Sheldon Springs, Vermont." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
November 1908. "Woman at beam warper. Melville Mfg. Company, Cherryville, North Carolina." 5x7 glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.