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Canning Factory
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Slightly elevated view of women who are working processing corn on a canning assembly line at the Fall River Canning Company. They are wearing aprons and gloves, and many of them have scarves or hats.
1977
Turner, L. Roger
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WHi 148289
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Men posing in metal forming area.
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1939
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