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Lot-9426-20
Solves Blackout Problems. The war has presented American ingenuity with many new problems, and U.S. inventors are constantly developing new devices and gadgets to meet wartime emergencies. Shown here is Los Angeles, California, attorney, William Sprague, holding his invention, a blackout aid which automatically turns out all lights and sounds an alarm at the same time. Office of War Information Photograph, 12-20 March 1942. Original image is small. (2015/12/18)
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- 2015
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- National Museum of the U.S. Navy
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- Wikimedia Commons
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- photograph
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- 1,861 × 2,572 pixels
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