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Boeing Airplane Company, Wichita, Kansas

Boeing Airplane Company

This is a view of men and women employees working on B-29 Superfortress airplanes at the Boeing Airplane Company plant in Wichita, Kansas.

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Vivian Vance

Vivian Vance, 1909-1979, was a well-known actress born Vivian Roberta Jones in Cherryvale in Montgomery County, Kansas. As a young child, Vance moved to Independence, Kansas where she found her love of acting under the tutelage of playwright William Inge. Her most famous role was as Ethel Mertz on the television show "I Love Lucy" with Lucille Ball.

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Eliza Clay Bear and granddaughter, Potawatomie

This is a view of Eliza Clay Bear and her young, unidentified granddaughter in full dress regalia at the Topeka Fairgrounds in Topeka, Kansas.

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Savera Marmolejo, Juana Granado and Catalina Marmolejo

This is a photograph of Savera Marmolejo, Juana Granado and Catalina Marmolejo.

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Madonna of the trail

Kansas Industrial Development Commission

View of a statue titled Madonna of the Trail, in Council Grove, Morris County, Kansas.

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Women on a bus trip, Junction City, Kansas

United States. Works Progress Administration

A photograph showing African American women traveling on a bus to an event in Junction City, Kansas, part of the Works Progress Administration.

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Kansas Free Fair, Topeka, Kansas

Woodring, Helen Coolidge, b. 1906

This black and white photograph shows a sketch of the Kansas Free Fair held in Topeka, Kansas by first lady of Kansas Helen Coolidge Woodring.

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Hercules drivers, De Soto, Kansas

A view of three women drivers employed by Hercules Powder Company from the Sunflower Ordinance Works plant in De Soto, Kansas. The plant, established in 1941, was the world's largest smokeless powder and propellant manufacturing plant. It was owned by the U.S. government but operated by the Hercules Powder Company. The company changed it's name to the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant on August 1, 1963.

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Women canning, Wichita, Kansas

United States. Works Progress Administration

Women preparing jars for canning, Wichita, Kansas, part of the Works Progress Administration's domestic science and foods project.

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Housekeeping aides, Topeka, Kansas

United States. Works Progress Administration

Photo of two African American women preparing food in Topeka, Kansas, as part of the Works Progress Administration's domestic science and foods project.

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