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Industrial Rail and Worksites (1940-1975)

Working America on film: 9,500+ clips of railroads, factories, mines, and construction sites from 1940 to 1975. Coal freight speeding through wartime Chicago, smokestacks over West Virginia, a suspension bridge getting its deck, and the General Motors floor in 1964. Filmed by workers and their families, not newsreel crews.

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Focus: United States | 1940–1975

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