Photo shows Aluminum Industries, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Aluminum paint production. Women work alongside of men in this Midwest aluminum factory now converted to production of war materials. These young workers are assembling 37mm armor-piercing shot prior to heat treating operations
- Date
- 1942-02
- Photographer / author
- photographer.
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 1,490 × 1,211 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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