womenatwork
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Men Man the Machines while Women Work the Weed from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded March 2023
Irene Cornyn (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded May 2010
This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif. She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-1 from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17 which distinguished itself in acti from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Woman at work on motor, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the school at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ( from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Camouflage class in New York University, where men and women are preparing for jobs in the Army or in industry, New York, N.Y. They make models from aerial photographs, re-photograph them, then work out a camouflage scheme and make a final photograph (LO from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Camouflage class at N[ew] Y[ork] University, where men and women are preparing for jobs in the Army or in industry, New York, N.Y. This model has been camouflaged and photographed. The girl is correcting oversights detected in the camouflaging of a model from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
This woman worker at the Vultee-Nashville is shown making final adjustments in the wheel well of an inner wing before the installation of the landing gear, Nashville, Tenn. This [is] one of the numerous assembly operations in connection with the mass prod from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
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Working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Vultee [Aircraft Inc.], Nashville, Tennessee (LOC)
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- Joey Harrison said:
Riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a B-25 [i.e. C-47] bomber at the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood [i.e. Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach], Calif. (LOC)
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docwatson1938 said:
That would be a C47.
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Ari Braginsky said:
Nice lighting.
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Jim Plumb said:
what great lighting in this series of photos.
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perfgeek said:
I agree with docwatson - that isn't the cockpit of a B-25, but looks rather like part of the cockpit of the DC-3/C-47.
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Brian Burger said:
Have to agree it doesn't look like a B-25 - compare the window outlines here to the ones on the right-hand side of this picture further down the photostream.
Irene Cornyn (LOC)
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In Memoriam: budderflyman said:
wow
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Wystan said:
According to a 1915 report on Google Books, Irene Cornyn was an employee of the Pennsylvania Board of Public Charities. (Probably connected with the handicap of a missing left hand and forearm, and the prosthesis which apparently enabled her to type.) [Her right arm is not visible, either.]