Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Youthful Paderewskis, take note!
Her finger made superbly flexible by years of piano practice, this young employee of a Midwest aircraft motor plant finds her musical training of great assistance in her war job. The operation of this drill press demands constant, rapid hand and wrist movement--and that's where those hours of do-re-mi are paying dividends. She's countersinking six holes in a bolt, an operation requiring great precision, speed and skill
- Date
- 1942-08
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 730 × 1,024 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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