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Female employees of a Japanese fishing cannery leave work for the day, 1940, Terminal Island, California.

Courtesy of uclamss_1387_b36_24304-1, Los Angeles Daily News negatives collection, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA

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