Women in industry. Gas mask production.
The grim realities of war are brought home to this twenty-one-year-old worker in a Midwest vacuum cleaner plant which now makes gas masks. It's her job to wire and tape the outlet valves of the masks, which are delivered to her by a moving conveyor belt. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan
- Date
- 1942-07
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- FSA/OWI
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
- Original size
- 759 × 1,024 pixels
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