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Richard Norton Thank you for the link. We think of Rosie the Riveter from WWII as paving the way for women in the workplace, 25 years after this.

Date scribbled on negative seems to be 3/22/18. I noticed the box at bottom left with printing on it, hoping for some clue as to which plant this is. But it's a box labeled "Gordon & Co. Dry Gin"!

I love this photo! It's like the early 20th century comic strip, Gasoline Alley, only all women! www.drawnandquarterly.com/walt-and-skeezix-1

Interesting to see women factory workers in the late 1910's. Any idea what the product is?

This sequence of photos seems to be in a munitions plant. See The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., September 30, 1918, Page 3 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92051227/1918-09-30/ed-... for a large advertisement for women to work in a munitions plant in Bridgeport, CT. And a related article in The [New York] Sun., October 06, 1918, Section 4 Magazine Section, Page 9 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1918-10-06/ed-...

Great series.

swanq Thank you.

In the news in early 1918 was a concern about working conditions for women in munitions plants. Some states instituted 8-hour workdays and did not permit nights shifts for women. The appointment of women with some medical training to positions of oversight also began. See, for example, The [New York] Sun., June 02, 1918, Section 5 Magazine Section, Page 4 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1918-06-02/ed-... "Health for Women Munitions Workers Woman Supervisor Named by Ordnance Department Tells of Pressing Need and How Much May Be Accomplished Adequate Rest and Quiet Add Much to Factory Output"