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This is a view of men and women employees working on B-29 Superfortress airplanes at the Boeing Airplane Company plant in Wichita, Kansas.
Creator: Boeing Airplane Company
Date: 1943
This photograph can be used in conjunction with other material on Boeing and can be used to help students appreciate the scale of Boeing's contribution to the U.S. air effort during World War II.
KS: 11th: 2.4.: understands the role of Kansas aviation companies in World War II
Item Number: 330
Call Number: FK2.S3 W.3 Ma.Boe *53
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 330
Built Environment - Function - Industry/Processing/Extraction - Manufacturing Facility
Business and Industry - Aviation - Production - Boeing
Collections - Photograph
Curriculum - 11th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1930-1945 (Kansas_Benchmark 2) - Aviation companies in World War II (Indicator 4)
Date - 1940s - 1943
Military - Wars - World War II - Homefront
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Women
Places - Cities and towns - Wichita
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Transportation - Air Travel - Companies - Boeing
Type of Material - Photographs
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