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Frances Eggleston, aged 23, came from Oklahoma, used to do office work. Removing paper from pilot's window(?), Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • perfgeek said:
    Give the workers seem to be riveting, it is unlikely they are removing paper from the pilot's window. In fact, they probably aren't even working on the cockpit - looks more like the nose or perhaps tail section.
  • marley1027 said:
    I agree with perfgeek they are riveting. The girl on the left is driving the rivet while the girl on the right is forming the shop head also known as bucking the rivet. I'll bet that at the end of the day these two couldn't hear anything. Dave
  • phoppernowlin said:
    Good image of the '40's. Nice picture.

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    Great image.

A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F bomber is a later model o

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  • bunæn said:
    Most likely these aircraft workers were over the age of 18 when the photos were taken. That being the case, it would be more accurate to refer to each of them as a woman rather than as a girl.
  • caffeinatedliby said:
    I'd bet a latte that the titles are taken word-for-word from the captions each photo was assigned at the time it was taken (or at the very least, when they were processed into the collection at the LoC). I doubt it'll come as a newsflash to anyone that things were a bit different in 1942 than they are in 2008...
  • bunæn said:
    Doh! Of course, you're right!
  • DanaLoesch said:
    A real life Rosie the Riveter.
  • Pat Strong said:
    The photographer is amazing... each shot is composed like a Vermeer There is that same sense of concentrated purpose, although its clearly very posed. Just lovely.