Making prints for $3,000,000 map. Grover M. Plew, AAA laboratory worker, making the finished photographic prints which go into the finished map now being put together by the AAA. Approximately one-third of the entire land surface of the United States is being photographed from the air for the map. 7
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- Date
- 1937
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 8,112 × 10,191 pixels
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"Making prints for $3,000,000 map. Grover M. Plew, AAA laboratory worker, making the finished photographic prints which go into the finished map now being put together by the AAA. Approximately one-third of the entire land surface of the United States is being photographed from the air for the map. 7" (1937). Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Making_prints_for_$3,000,000_map._Grover_M._Plew,_AAA_laboratory_worker,_making_the_finished_photographic_prints_which_go_into_the_finished_map_now_being_put_together_by_the_AAA._LCCN2016872074.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 287184.
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