Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly employed in a vacuum cleaner plant, these young women are now making gas masks for America's soldiers and civilians. Margaret Reed, left, who used to work in the vacuum brush department, now operates a precrimping machine which attaches eye rings to the mask proper. Note the "V" chalked on her machine. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan
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Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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Date
01/01/1942
Contributors
Rosener, Ann, photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Location
Detroit (Mich.), 42.33139, -83.04583
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain