Buffalo, New York. Esther O'Hara, twenty-six, is a shearman's helper trimming defects from machine gun barrels at Republic Steel. She prefers her job to housework
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- 1943-05
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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- 790 × 1,024 pixels
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