Women at Work during World War II. 8 Press Photos, 1942-1943.
Black-and-white 8 x 10 inch images showing American women contributing to the war effort in different capacities, including Martha Gordon a nightshift worker at the General Electric plant in Schenectady, NY, who suggested a labor-saving change in the procedure to fabricate a large electric motor; Eleanor Nolan, a city court judge from Brainard, Minnesota preparing tin cans for salvage at the WAAC training center in Des Moines, Iowa, where she enrolled in the motor transport specialist's school; Margaret Fewkes, assembling electrical equipment for the military at the GE plant in Philadelphia while her two sons served; Melba Ash, Pauline Garrett, Neda Egnot, Duette Eckles & Edith Stewart, who worked at Consolidated Aircraft corporation in Forth Worth, Texas assembling the wiring harnesses for B-24 Liberator Bombers and Liberator Express transport aircraft; Jean Kelly, who was learning farm skills from Chinese Americans on Long Island with the American Women's Voluntary Services; Savina Daut who worked in a New Jersey propellor factory assembling the blades for war planes, and others. (8)
