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Operating a hand drill at the North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane (LOC)

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  • emddudley said:
    Should she really be holding the chuck? Or does the drill not have a chuck?
  • Cajun Metal said:
    not if it's rotating, I'm sure. She's probably just aligning the bit with the surface
  • Eight Food said:
    All of the photos of the women are so staged. Looking pretty rather than actually working. Regulations must've dictated their hair was up and out of the way of the machinery and you wouldn't waste expensive red lipstick just to go to work or be wearing blusher. So patronising and of course unfair, as they were paid half of what the male workers were paid.

Girl inspectors at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company make a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes (LOC)

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  • laura alice watt said:
    so amazing...
  • Gamy Chance said:
    This is an incredibly beautiful shot.
  • aimlesst said:
    Added to comments on some of the other titles; these are "girl" inspectors? Definitely you can see a shift in perspectives in the last 60 years.
  • RCIN Photography said:
    they almost look like college girls studying in the park ... then you look behind them and those aren't trees. great photo
  • Erin Eli said:
    This is gorgeous. It's so cool to know that 4x5 was amazing that long ago, and still is amazing!

War production workers at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-stage orchestra musician, checking an M7 gun with gage, after turning out on a gun lathe. Her two brothers and husband are in the serv

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