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| Date: | 05 1912 |
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| Description: | The 1912 class at the Glenn Curtiss Aviation School on North Island, near San Diego. Milwaukee's John Kaminski (in white shirt and tie) is second from the ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | To the accompaniment of a cheering crowd, a pilot in a Curtiss pusher prepares to take off. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | An unsuccessful test of Glenn Curtiss' hydroplane in San Diego Bay. The pilot about to be rescued is thought to be Milwaukee's John Kaminski. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers, with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw, was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight i... |
| Date: | 03 1966 |
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| Description: | Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong (right) and David R. Scott, the two-man crew scheduled to fly Gemini 8, visiting the Lockheed plant where the Agena target veh... |
| Date: | 08 17 1965 |
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| Description: | NBC News broadcaster Merrill Mueller interviewing Lockheed engineer Bud Zeller about the Gemini Agena Target Vehicle. The interview was part of a public re... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Glenn Martin, who would become one of the great names in the airplane construction industry, in a Curtiss Pusher during the early days of his career in Cal... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Lincoln Beachey, shortly before his fatal crash at Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. During his brief career Beachey was the best known, ... |
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| Description: | A group of workers stand in the doorway of a new stable at the Greenville Indian School. |
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| Description: | Workers stand in front of a new laundry building at the Greenville Indian School. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoist in a lumber mill with a man in the cab. Text stamped on cab reads "Capacity 6,000 Lbs., No. 2573." In the lowe... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger monorail hoist crane handling lumber with a man in the cab operating the crane. In the lower right corner, the photograph is signed... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoist with lumber handling unit in the Pacific Lumber Co. lumberyard. There's a man in the cab and the text stamped ... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Women workers, probably at a California warehouse, size, weigh, and bag carrots for market. |
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| Description: | A worker, probably in California, and probably a member of Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union local P78, crating melons for shipment. |
| Date: | 11 1955 |
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| Description: | California farm workers, somewhere near Salinas, wave to the union official who had visited them with the mobile union office of Packinghouse Workers Local... |
| Date: | 01 18 1961 |
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| Description: | The farm workers picket line near El Centro during the important Imperial Valley lettuce strike. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Four of the deputy sheriffs that were part of the growers strike-breaking techniques during the important Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) field representative John Soria watching picket line and police activities during the important Imperial Vall... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Children of unemployed members of the Amalgamated Clothing workers picket with their parents to protest low-wage clothing imports. They carry signs that re... |
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