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26 photos and 2 illustrations tagged focus, from 6 members of Flickr Commons.

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• Smithsonian Institution 16 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 6 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 3 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Medicine 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration

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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 248 older comments, and then…
• E. Howe said:

  Whoa! What an incredible image. I am SO glad to see that Black women worked on aircraft, too. I love her nail polish, and her ring. I'd LOVE to know her name, if she's still alive. This is such an outstanding portrait!

• Nicola Hunt said:

  this is outstanding...i also noticed the details of her appearence as well as the clear reflection and sharp focus...this is just so rad to have on flickr!

• Liz Rizzo said:

  Beautiful and inspiring.

• Descriptive Bottle said:

  What an amazing time captured on film forever!

• kenorland said:

  Okay, they never taught us that black women also worked as Rosie. What a crime of omission! So cool to see this.

Miriam Elizabeth Simpson (1894-1991)

from Smithsonian Institution

• Melinda Young Stuart said:

  Wonderful portrait of this woman scientist in her lab! Her inspiring obit is here: texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb4t1nb2bd&doc.view=frames...

• Smithsonian Institution said:

  Melinda Young Stuart Thank you for the link! That is quite a bio. Sincerely, Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives

• Smithsonian Institution said:

  Title and description have been updated. Thanks! Susannah

William Sneyd pictured with his Roliflex camera

from State Library of Queensland

• Pixel Wrangler said:

  >> pictured with his Roliflex... Also known as a Rolleiflex ;)

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Concentration and focus are required if one is determined to capture the moment in time.