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Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a f

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  • Allison Marchant said:
    Quite a different work experience from this one.
  • technogeo said:
    The final version is a big improvement!
  • loratamosiuniene said:
    I would call it A Happy War- serenity and luster. Angelic face paintig stars on the sky. Hope- maybe
  • Chuck Sloan said:
    I can identify with this. I painted Navy planes in Kingsville TX in the late 1960's. Squadron VT-22.
  • Ginormous Memory said:
    I'm surprised it is done by hand. The care she is using is amazing.

Men Man the Machines while Women Work the Weed

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  • CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
    My dear departed father succumbed to lung cancer, in 1992. Think of how many millions of people have suffered since it was first discovered it could be smoked or chewed. Damned sad.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Tobacco grown in Ireland ?
    The Times, 9 Oct 1905 ~
    At a special meeting of the Irish Industrial Development Association Mr. R.E. Goodbody made an interesting statement about the Irish tobacco crop for 1905. In company with an American expert, he had just visited Randlestown, Navan, where Colonel Everard had ten acres under process of saving. He had never seen so good a yield in any country, and the expert was of the same opinion. The yield of the ten acres was three times as great as that from a twenty plot last year. The tobacco was a little slow in saving but smoked very well. More than 3,000 hands were employed in Irish tobacco factories.

    See - www.navanhistory.ie/index.php?page=tobacco
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Sixteen photos of Goodbody's in the NLI catalogue. Electric lights in evidence; looking 1910-ish more than 1890-ish - catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=Goodbody%27s+Toba...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Prior to independence there had been two leading southern Irish firms, Goodbody’s and Carroll’s. The Goodbody tobacco operation had moved, along with its workers, to the South Circular Road (the site of the later Players-Wills factory) when its Tullamore factory burnt down in 1886. The Dublin factory registered an employment level of 320 in 1908, and was described at the time as much larger than Carroll’s of Dundalk.

    Some Déja vu here, I think we were discussing Greenville Tobacco Manufactory not so long ago.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr amazes! Cigarette card c. 1900 via cigcardpix en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esme_Beringer

Working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Vultee [Aircraft Inc.], Nashville, Tennessee (LOC)

  • Gerry Asher said:
    I believe this transparency must have migrated from another file - the part being assembled in the nose door for a Consolidated C-87 'Liberator Express,' probably taken at Consolidated's Fort Worth plant.
  • The Library of Congress said:
    g.asher: Thanks for the information! We’ll look into it.
  • Joey Harrison said:
    That patriotic woman on the right is giving up her right arm for the war effort. And she's happy to do so!