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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Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a f
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An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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Flyer31 said:
The lady is DRILLING not riviting. This looks like the decking for something other than the A-20.
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greens n cornbread said:
looks like she's in the wing behind the engine mount (nacelle)
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bad_idea_dinosaur said:
I believe the process of riveting requires one drill a hole first.
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Kary Nieuwenhuis said:
Whats more important? Drilling? Riveting? or brown shoes, blue socks and a maroon pants.
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james gallagher said:
definitely the hair net, but I was really pulling for the shoes. gives a very clear sense of scope and scale of the operation, ....those drills were not like tools we have today. I am struck.
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
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Real Chickens said:
incredible
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roderickbodine said:
The quality and composition of the photo is outstanding!
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Pepin Lachance said:
They seem so cordenated.
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yourFAVORITEmartian said:
Remind anyone of "Alien"?
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Peter Suk Sin Chan 陳叔善 said:
very nice