womenintheworkforce

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A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background (LOC)

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  • roderickbodine said:
    I realize that these photos were taken pre-OSHA, but shouldn't these women be wearing boots in this industrial setting?
  • bf53490 said:
    It looks like this lady was more into fashion than actually worried about safety or dropping some heavy piece of metal on her feet. She is seen earlier in a closeup as well. Makes me wonder if she was an aspiring model or an actual model?
  • Coordinated Manner said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sitting portraits, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • Le yeux sans visage said:
    She's gotta be a model - no one working long hours can look like this!
  • Jazz Guy said:
    Women took better care of themselves back then than they do today.

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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  • Allison Marchant said:
    Quite a different work experience from this one.
  • technogeo said:
    The final version is a big improvement!
  • loratamosiuniene said:
    I would call it A Happy War- serenity and luster. Angelic face paintig stars on the sky. Hope- maybe
  • Chuck Sloan said:
    I can identify with this. I painted Navy planes in Kingsville TX in the late 1960's. Squadron VT-22.
  • Ginormous Memory said:
    I'm surprised it is done by hand. The care she is using is amazing.

Blind stenographer using dictaphone (LOC)

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  • Olinad Rellse said:
    one of those 'courageous women of the 1910s. it's really a brilliant 'handicapped'. great photo!
  • Erika Morrison Bunda said:
    Awesome Vintage*~*
  • vkgray said:
    Would be a great history lesson to compare the workspace here. In the 1960 I worked in a setup much like this.
  • instituto altior said:
    Un pequeño lente para observar los impresioantes avances del siglo XX
  • Mariano Akerman said:
    • English. The picture shows a working woman. Considering her blindness, one thinks life was not fair with her. But all of us are in one sense or another limited beings. If looking at this picture, Ortega y Gasset may have said that that she lacking of is precisely what supports her. The photograph may not show a famous person, but it shows a working one—somebody that went beyond natural injustice and apparently transcended it too. • Castellano rioplatense. Con los auriculares puestos, esta taquígrafa ciega de principios del siglo XX fue fotografiada mientras trabajaba. Al considerar su ceguera, uno piensa que la vida no fue justa con ella. Pero, de alguna manera u otra, todos somos seres limitados. Importante es lo que hacemos con lo que la vida sí nos dio. Lo que nos falta es lo que nos sostiene, decía Ortega y Gasset. Esta foto acaso no muestre un ser famoso, pero muestra una taquígrafa ciega en plena labor. La imagen sugiere que ella, a la Naturaleza, la trascendió. Mariano Akerman - « plus ultra » → www.flogup.com/akermariano/845258 To meditate | Para meditar → efimeronte.page.tl/Atypical-Beings.htm