Production. Aircraft engines.
Negro women with no previous industrial experience are reconditioning used spark plugs in a large Midwest airplane plant. Despite their lack of technical knowlege, these women have become expert operators of the small testing machines. Melrose Park, Buick plant
- Date
- 1942-07
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 1,024 × 743 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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