Category:Black and white photographs of California in the 1940s

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This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.

Media in category "Black and white photographs of California in the 1940s"

The following 137 files are in this category, out of 137 total.

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  "4,000 Unit Housing Project Progress Photographs March 6,1943 to August 11, 1943, Housing units by railroad tracks... - NARA - 296756.jpg 3,000 × 1,878; 1.48 MB
  
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  (Ambulance in front of Exposition Building, Balboa Park, U.S. Naval Training Station, San Diego, California.) - NARA - 295551.jpg 3,000 × 1,828; 2.19 MB
  
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  (Main gate to the Naval Training Center, San Diego, California.) - NARA - 295588.jpg 3,000 × 2,068; 2.38 MB
  
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  (Pharmacist mate conducting chest x-rays on one sailor while another sailor waits his turn at the Naval Training... - NARA - 295584.jpg 3,000 × 2,464; 2.98 MB
  
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  (Six sailors sweeping sidewalks at Naval Training Center, San Diego, California.) - NARA - 295581.jpg 3,000 × 2,418; 3.43 MB
  
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  San Leandro, California. Youth on Relief. Waiting in line for surplus commodities - NARA - 532133.tif 2,831 × 3,000; 8.1 MB
  
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  Aircraft workers on lunch break 1942.gif 600 × 486; 81 KB
  
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  1943 Bill Schultz tosses John 'Duke' Wayne in Hollywood.jpg 1,142 × 1,407; 617 KB
  
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  1947 10 11 - NARA ON003001-426 - Nr 608 per Seth Washburne and The Thirsty 13th.jpg 5,911 × 3,559; 7.87 MB
  
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  80-G-68744 (28593324720).jpg 2,054 × 2,677; 1.17 MB
  
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  A shipping department employee at the Inglewod, Calif., plant of North American Aviation drills holes in a shipping... - NARA - 196390.jpg 2,406 × 3,000; 2.56 MB
  
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  A plaster cast for plexiglass for turret on PV-1 is scraped smooth by a workman at the Vega aircraft plant, Burbank... - NARA - 520737.jpg 2,136 × 3,000; 1.55 MB
  
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  AD-1 and F8F-1 (4683832505).jpg 750 × 583; 49 KB
  
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  San Joaquin Valley, California. Contract Labor. Sixteen years old and the possessor of a labor contractor's button... - NARA - 532164.tif 3,000 × 2,998; 8.58 MB
  
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  San Joaquin Valley, California. Contract Labor. Sixteen years old and the possessor of a labor contractor's button... - NARA - 532165.tif 3,000 × 2,998; 8.58 MB
  
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  San Joaquin Valley, California. Contract Labor. Sixteen years old and the possessor of a labor contractor's button... - NARA - 532166.tif 3,000 × 2,998; 8.58 MB
  
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  Age 70, she came from near Greeley, Nebraska, with sister age 65, nephew age 30, and brother age 68. - NARA - 521788.jpg 2,358 × 3,000; 1.81 MB
  
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  Arvin Kern County, California. Photograph made from the entrance of the Arvin Farm Labor Camp (F.S.A . . . - NARA - 521768.jpg 3,000 × 2,359; 1.29 MB
  
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  Arvin, Kern County, California. ... Close-up of relief queue on S.R.A. pay day. Man in foreground is . . . - NARA - 521652.jpg 2,228 × 3,000; 802 KB
  
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  Arvin, Kern County, California. A newly-built house in one of four rapidly growing shacktown communi . . . - NARA - 521649.jpg 3,000 × 2,206; 1.66 MB
  
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  Arvin, Kern County, California. Man in doorway, "I'm paying $7 a month for this rig right here and w . . . - NARA - 521658.jpg 3,000 × 2,172; 976 KB
  
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  AW-3 Pasig.jpg 800 × 570; 199 KB
  
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  Babcock Taubman LC13 (7014280473).jpg 1,780 × 1,140; 314 KB
  
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  Bakersfield on Highway 466. Private auto camp, better than the average. There are a score of private . . . - NARA - 521795.jpg 3,000 × 1,403; 909 KB
  
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  Bakersfield, California. Hitch-hiking. At the end of the city limits of Bakersfield, four hitch-hikers spread out... - NARA - 532089.tif 2,332 × 3,000; 6.67 MB
  
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  Bakersfield, California. Hitch-hiking. The fourth in a line of thumbers at Bakersfield city limits - NARA - 532090.tif 2,335 × 3,000; 6.68 MB
  
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  Bakersfield, California. Miscellaneous. These Negro youth are returning to their squalid homes in the Sunset district... - NARA - 532250.tif 3,000 × 2,311; 6.61 MB
  
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  Bakersfield, California. On the Freights. (Two young men hitch-hiking on a freight.) - NARA - 532070.tif 2,398 × 3,000; 6.86 MB
  
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  Bakersfield, California. On the Freights. Helping a newcomer hop a freight - NARA - 532069.tif 2,860 × 3,000; 8.18 MB
  
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  Bakersfield, California. On the Freights. One of two migrant boys in California returning to their families in... - NARA - 532066.tif 3,000 × 2,998; 8.58 MB
  
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  Bakersfield, California. On the Freights. Two Oklahoma boys headed back home standing on the edge of a flat waiting... - NARA - 532067.tif 3,000 × 2,998; 8.58 MB
  
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  Bell XP-59A first flight Oct 1, 1942.jpg 2,946 × 2,361; 437 KB
  
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  Ben Weisman Composer.png 488 × 578; 276 KB
  
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  Berkeley, California. University of California Student Peace Strike. Perched on a stone urn at Sather Gate. To climb... - NARA - 532114.tif 3,000 × 2,998; 8.58 MB
  
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  Billie Holiday, 1949.jpg 3,783 × 5,204; 4.36 MB
  
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  Boeing 314A Pan American (4858007177).jpg 1,200 × 815; 205 KB
  
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  Boeing-Vega XB-38 parked.jpg 1,800 × 1,199; 264 KB
  
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  Cahuilla.jpg 1,909 × 1,565; 549 KB
  
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  Car crossing bridge over waterfall - NARA - 286065.jpg 3,000 × 2,091; 2.99 MB
  
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  Center detail, Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Newcomers move into Manzanar, a War Relocation Au . . . - NARA - 536854 (cropped).jpg 796 × 550; 93 KB
  
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  Centerville, California. A caucasian friend has come to say goodbye to his farmer friends of Japane . . . - NARA - 537555.jpg 2,875 × 3,000; 1.27 MB
  
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  Centerville, California. Early comers arrive at evacuation meeting place in this Alameda County far . . . - NARA - 537547.jpg 3,000 × 2,135; 1.1 MB
  
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  Centerville, California. Irrigator, who, with 595 persons of Japanese ancestry, is leaving this rur . . . - NARA - 537553.jpg 2,870 × 3,000; 1.37 MB
  
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  Class change at Inglewood High School, California, 1947.jpg 2,400 × 2,400; 1,001 KB
  
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  Courtyard of the women's campus at Pomona College, ca.1940.jpg 911 × 1,151; 99 KB
  
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  CPS31snow.jpg 800 × 537; 86 KB
  
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  Daliel's Bookstore.jpg 547 × 688; 437 KB
  
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  Daliel's-construction.jpg 914 × 728; 537 KB
  
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  Daliel's-interior.jpg 924 × 726; 500 KB
  
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  Edison, Kern County, California. 17-year-old boy agri. (sic) worker sacking early potatoes after mec . . . - NARA - 521813.jpg 3,000 × 2,404; 1.54 MB
  
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  Edison, Kern County, California. Pickers sack early potatoes, dug by mechanical digger on large-scal . . . - NARA - 521805.jpg 3,000 × 2,279; 1.31 MB
  
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  Edison, Kern County, California. The town of Edison, a potato town in a nearly developing large-scal . . . - NARA - 521781.jpg 3,000 × 2,310; 1.82 MB
  
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  George J. Yokomizo and Guayule plants.jpg 605 × 483; 111 KB
  
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  Ghost Blimp L-8.jpg 750 × 500; 37 KB
  
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  Golden Gate Bridge in early 1944.jpg 933 × 586; 330 KB
  
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  Goodyear K class.jpg 3,000 × 3,898; 1.11 MB
  
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  Near Mission San Jose, California. Family of Japanese ancestry laboring in their strawberry field a . . . - NARA - 536478.jpg 3,000 × 2,325; 1.8 MB
  
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  Hayward, California. Youth on Relief. High School student calling for surplus commodities for his family on relief.... - NARA - 532125.tif 3,000 × 2,998; 8.58 MB
  
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  Hayward, California. Youth on Relief. High School student calling for surplus commodities for his family on relief.... - NARA - 532126.tif 3,000 × 2,998; 8.58 MB
  
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  USS Intrepid (CV-11) in February 1945.jpeg 1,755 × 1,174; 826 KB
  
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  Isolation camp, U.S. Naval Training Station, San Diego, California. - NARA - 295552.jpg 3,000 × 1,738; 1.97 MB
  
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  Jack Woolams at Edwards AFB 1943.webp 1,065 × 820; 75 KB
  
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  Jackie Robinson military.jpg 401 × 603; 28 KB
  
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  Jessie at UN.jpg 872 × 764; 51 KB
  
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  John Budway, Los Angeles, California, 20 February 1944.jpg 886 × 1,584; 231 KB
  
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  Los Angeles City Hall at night with office lights turned on in the form on a cross for Christmas, 1947.jpg 4,913 × 6,147; 4.19 MB
  
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  Los Angeles, California. Aircraft Schools. Waiting to be called for aircraft employment from the aircraft school. He... - NARA - 532183.tif 2,336 × 3,000; 6.68 MB
  
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  LST-938.jpg 775 × 566; 68 KB
  
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  Lunchtime at the Vega aircraft plant, Burbank, Calif. A quartet of girl workers. - NARA - 520738.jpg 2,211 × 3,000; 1.88 MB
  
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  Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are growing flouris . . . - NARA - 537975.jpg 2,911 × 3,000; 3.69 MB
  
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  Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Newcomers move into Manzanar, a War Relocation Au . . . - NARA - 536854.jpg 3,000 × 2,315; 1.39 MB
  
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  Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Takeshi Shindo, Reporter for the Manzanar Free . . . - NARA - 536942.jpg 3,000 × 2,969; 1.63 MB
  
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  Marian Anderson and Mary McLeod Bethune at the launching of the SS Booker T Washington - 29 Sept 1942.jpg 1,898 × 1,530; 1.43 MB
  
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  Marian Anderson christens the liberty ship Booker T. Washington.jpg 4,776 × 4,091; 9.69 MB
  
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  Marian Anderson Liberty Ship 1942.jpg 1,991 × 1,645; 288 KB
  
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  Marysville, Yuba County, California. Another view...of squatter shacks under the D Street Bridge. - NARA - 521735.jpg 3,000 × 2,415; 1.14 MB
  
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  Marysville, Yuba County, California. Squatter shacks under D Street Bridge.... On edge of old Califo . . . - NARA - 521734.jpg 3,000 × 2,346; 1.12 MB
  
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  McFarland, Kern County, California. A new home. Young people from Texas, arrived in California 8 mon . . . - NARA - 521685.jpg 3,000 × 2,357; 1.89 MB
  
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  McNews, 2 1-2 miles S.E. of Bakersfield, Kern County, California. McNews subdivision. On Raw Alkali . . . - NARA - 521635.jpg 3,000 × 2,386; 1.78 MB
  
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  McNews, 2-1-2 miles S.E. of Bakersfield, Kern County, California. McNews subdivision. On Raw Alkali . . . - NARA - 521645.jpg 3,000 × 2,405; 1.65 MB
  
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  NARA RG 111-SC Box 665 1947 10 01 - Gate 1 looking up Grant Drive 2.jpg 2,819 × 794; 278 KB
  
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  Near Collision at Air Show.jpg 1,479 × 1,212; 644 KB
  
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  Nurse training in high altitude (BUMED 09-8154-38), U.S. Navy BUMED Library and Archives (4502756466).jpg 4,590 × 5,557; 4.48 MB
  
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  Old Expositions Building, U.S. Naval Training Station, San Diego, California. - NARA - 295549.jpg 3,000 × 2,370; 3.18 MB
  
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  Olivehurst, 2 miles south of Marysville, Yuba County, California. Squatter Community of 52 camps, a . . . - NARA - 521737.jpg 3,000 × 2,222; 1.14 MB
  
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  Olivehurst, 2 miles south of Marysville, Yuba County, California. Squatter Community of 52 camps, a . . . - NARA - 521738.jpg 3,000 × 2,285; 1.43 MB
  
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  Olivehurst, 2 miles south of Marysville, Yuba County, California. Squatter community of 52 camps, ag . . . - NARA - 521736.jpg 3,000 × 2,392; 1.31 MB
  
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  Olivehurst, 2 miles south of Marysville, Yuba County, California. Squatter community of 52 camps, ag . . . - NARA - 521739.jpg 3,000 × 2,412; 1.53 MB
  
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  Olivehurst, Yuba County, California. Shows trailer-house in use for two years as permanent dwelling . . . - NARA - 521610.jpg 3,000 × 2,348; 1.73 MB
  
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  Patton during a welcome home parade in Los Angeles, June 9, 1945.jpg 2,845 × 2,243; 1.11 MB
  
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  Paul Wolf 1940.jpg 630 × 890; 286 KB
  
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  Stanislaus County, San Joaquin, California. Labor contractor's camp for field labor during the pea h . . . - NARA - 521710.jpg 3,000 × 2,309; 2.26 MB
  
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  Two and one-half miles S.E. of Westley, Stanislaus County, San Joaquin, California. Labor contractor . . . - NARA - 521709.jpg 3,000 × 2,316; 1.61 MB
  
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  Photograph of the USS Jacob Jones (DD-661) - DPLA - 84a3e8a2a2b34379ea5689fd224fe7f6.jpg 5,755 × 4,807; 2.97 MB
  
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  Photograph, California ^8, May 22, 1940, Oakland, Free Nursery Schools. Nursery School Shop- Repair and Painting Toys. - NARA - 296092.jpg 3,000 × 2,422; 1.49 MB
  
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  Photograph, WP 10688, OP^665 08 3 169, Household Workers Training Project, San Jose, California (Class Hour). - NARA - 296101.tif 3,000 × 2,336; 6.68 MB
  
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  Photograph, WP 10688, OP^665 08 3 169, Household Workers Training Project, San Jose, California (Cooking). - NARA - 296100.tif 3,000 × 2,284; 6.53 MB
  
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  Photograph, WP 10688, OP^665 08 3 169, Household Workers Training Project, San Jose, California (Laundry). (7 persons) - NARA - 296102.tif 3,000 × 2,307; 6.6 MB
  
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  Pit River Bridge.jpg 708 × 419; 105 KB
  
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  Pit River valley.jpg 392 × 327; 49 KB
  
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  Rodger Young Village 3.jpg 640 × 480; 57 KB
  
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  S1 Committee 1942.jpg 1,024 × 783; 428 KB
  
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  Sacramento, California. Air view of Winters Farm Works Community (F.S.A.) with farm labor homes (F.S . . . - NARA - 521767.jpg 2,465 × 3,000; 1.92 MB
  
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  Ships in drydock at Mare Island Naval Shipyard c1944.jpg 4,330 × 3,208; 2.8 MB
  
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  Soldiers Drilling at Pomona College (1943).jpg 720 × 512; 87 KB
  
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  Sounding in Salton Sea for seaplane landing site.jpg 1,640 × 1,072; 900 KB
  
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  Sunset District, East Bakersfield, Kern County, California. Row of cribs adjoining recreation center . . . - NARA - 521666.jpg 3,000 × 2,322; 1.08 MB
  
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  The swimming pool, U.S. Naval Training Station, San Diego, California. - NARA - 295561.jpg 3,000 × 2,428; 2.07 MB
  
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  Tulare County, California. Cheap auto camp housing for citrus workers. - NARA - 521799.jpg 3,000 × 2,380; 1.32 MB
  
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  United States Marines recruiting office 1941.jpg 3,631 × 3,618; 6.55 MB
  
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  US Naval Hospital San Diego Nurses Modeling Uniforms ca1944.jpg 1,506 × 1,874; 211 KB
  
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  USS Abatan (AW-4).jpg 740 × 596; 79 KB
  
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  USS Barnes (CVE-20).jpg 697 × 533; 126 KB
  
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  USS Beale (DD-471) at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, California (USA), on 13 January 1945 (NH 103757).jpg 740 × 615; 156 KB
  
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  USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) at Hunters Point 1945.jpeg 1,861 × 1,407; 1.05 MB
  
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  USS Bowers (DE-637) underway in San Francisco Bay on 5 February 1945 (80-G-216256).jpg 600 × 465; 41 KB
  
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  USS Bush (DD-529) in San Francisco Bay, California (USA), on 15 May 1943 (BS 45135).jpg 1,280 × 631; 158 KB
  
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  USS Erben (DD-631) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California (USA), on 8 February 1945.jpg 1,134 × 573; 310 KB
  
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  USS Hale (DD-642) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California (USA), on 8 February 1945.jpg 741 × 556; 211 KB
  
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  USS Heermann (DD-532) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California (USA), on 9 January 1945 (BS 75259).jpg 1,654 × 486; 314 KB
  
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  USS Louisville (CA-28) arrives off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 6 February 1945 (NH 92362).jpg 5,720 × 4,235; 6.19 MB
  
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  USS McConnell (DE-163) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California (USA), on 6 January 1945 (DE-163-224-45).jpg 800 × 664; 197 KB
  
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  USS Mount Vernon (AP-22) (2).jpg 2,846 × 1,996; 803 KB
  
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  USS Mullany (DD-528) off the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California (USA), on 6 January 1945.jpg 741 × 555; 207 KB
  
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  USS Norton Sound (AV-11) underway in San Pedro Bay, California (USA), on 24 January 1945 (19-N-77525).jpg 1,020 × 716; 313 KB
  
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  USS Pasig (19-LCM-77861).jpg 7,376 × 5,528; 38.56 MB
  
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  USS Pasig (19-LCM-77862).jpg 7,416 × 5,544; 39.88 MB
  
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  USS Pasig (19-LCM-77866).jpg 7,608 × 5,832; 42.49 MB
  
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  USS San Francisco (CA-38) enters San Francisco Bay, December 1942.jpg 4,235 × 5,640; 8.44 MB
  
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  USS San Francisco (CA-38) steams under the Golden Gate Bridge on 11 December 1942 (80-G-40093).jpg 3,199 × 2,393; 3 MB
  
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  USS Schroeder (DD-501) at anchor off San Francisco, California (USA), on 31 January 1945 (NH 107239).jpg 5,945 × 4,474; 11.83 MB
  
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  USS Shaw (DD-373).jpg 740 × 520; 72 KB
  
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  USS Teton (AGC-14) in January 1945.jpg 740 × 389; 75 KB
  
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  USS Walker (DD-517) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 10 February 1945.jpg 725 × 547; 186 KB
  
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  WWII daycare Richmond CA.jpg 498 × 367; 118 KB
  
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  WWII Survivors Company B 124th Infantry 31st Division.jpg 1,772 × 515; 588 KB
  
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  XB-38.jpg 1,800 × 1,209; 223 KB