Texas Historic photos, documents, and people

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Getting a nose door ready to put on a C-87 transport plane at the end of the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

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Jesse Rhodes Waller, A.O.M., third class, tries out a 30-calibre machine gun he has just installed on a Navy plane, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

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Jesse Rhodes Waller, A.O.M., third class, tries out a 30-calibre machine gun he has just installed in a Navy plane, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

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Man in front of post office. Carey, Texas. This town is fast becoming a ghost town because of mechanization of cotton and displacement of tenant farmers

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Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic in the Assembly and Repair Department at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

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El Paso, Texas. Phelps Dodge refining company. Sheets of pure copper are formed by electrolysis in large tanks in later melted and poured into ingots

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As an NYA trainee working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Naval Air Base, Texas

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Two six-year old newsboys. Odell McDuffy, Sam Stillman, Dallas. There are many other of six and seven years selling here. Location: Dallas, Texas.

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Millie. Four year old cotton picker on farm near Houston. Picks about eight pounds a day, regularly. See #3598. Location: Houston vicinity, Texas.