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Conversion. Automobile plant. A tractor and an overhead crane work together on the removal, without dismantling, of a thirty-eight-and-a-half-ton press from an auto factory building which is being entirely cleared and converted to a new type armament program. In its new location, this press, a Bliss
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Conversion. Automobile plant. A tractor and an overhead crane work together on the removal, without dismantling, of a thirty-eight-and-a-half-ton press from an auto factory building which is being entirely cleared and converted to a new type armament program. In its new location, this press, a Bliss

Palmer, Alfred T., United States. Office For Emergency Management · 1942-01-01 · photo, print, drawing

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Credit lineConversion. Automobile plant. A tractor and an overhead crane work together on the removal, without dismantling, of a thirty-eight-and-a-half-ton press from an auto factory building which is being ent. 1942-01-01. Palmer, Alfred T., United States. Office For Emergency Management. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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