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3023 Fingers of Destruction.
Guaging and weighing a.50 caliber ball cartridge in an endless row. Production for National Defense is geared up to full speed at this Army Arsenal in Philadelphia. OEM Defense
- Date
- 1942
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 1,589 × 1,985 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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"3023 Fingers of Destruction." (1942). FSA/OWI. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Face_detail_of_female_worker,_Fingers_of_destruction_(cropped).jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 119059.
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