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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A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif. The mechanism resembles a small cannon (LOC)
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Woman at work on motor, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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Dave Rau said:
This is wonderful; but the LoC photos are very low res and overcompressed.
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Flyer31 said:
Great publicity shot by Mr. Palmer. But definitely not the way it was done!!
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The Library of Congress said:
Thank you all for the comments. You can reach the uncompressed archival digital files with the persistent URL above, or through the P&P Online Catalog (PPOC): www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
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harmajdon harmajdon said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Passion & Love, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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Kilted Cowboy said:
quite possibly a Wright R-3350 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_R-3350
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
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Howard33 said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Nashville in the Early Days, and we'd love to have this added to the group!