Historical industry photo porn open thread

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B17's built at a Boeing factory, camouflaged as a suburban neighborhood, along the Duwamish
 
speaking of Boeing here's one of them cranking out a few of the 1600+ B-29's that were built at the plant here in Wichita

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and a Cessna shot, AT-17's the same year.
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further back in 1900, not so much industry but destruction of one.
Fuck Carrie Nation and her hatchet and the whole "Kansas Idea" (Prohibition in Kansas started in 1881)
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:'(
 

USS Arizona


The keel is laid March 16, 1914 at the New York Navy Yard[/i]
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Building progresses: BB-39 under construction (Photo dated May 3rd, 1914)[/i]
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Christening Day, November 10th, 1916 and BB-39, now officially the USS Arizona, heads out for her first shakedown cruise. After calibrating her compass Arizona headed to Hampton Roads, Virginia to fire her guns for the first time.[/i]
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Norfolk, 1929, moderinization
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