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| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Female worker inspecting small plastic and metal parts at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Enola O'Connell, the only woman welder at the Heil Company during World War II, working on gasoline trailer tanks. A 32-year-old widow and the mother of o... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Joan Hebrink with safety shoes. Original caption states: "Closed-toe safety shoes are required wear by all women employees of the plant. All... |
| Date: | 09 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A female operator at an International Harvester Company factory welds the end plates of a M-5 high-speed tractor. The tractor was built for the Army to pul... |
| Date: | 06 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker wearing safety glasses uses what appears to be a piece of sandpaper to polish a torpedo part at International Harvester's McCormick... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman's face is visible through an opening in the after-body of an aircraft torpedo as she uses a tool to tap holes in it. The photograph was taken at In... |
| Date: | 09 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A line of female factory workers at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works assembling the instrument panels for "M-5 high speed tractors" [crawler]. |
| Date: | 05 25 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a hat, protective gloves, and safety glasses uses a tool to bend copper tubing used in making aircraft torpedoes at an International Harves... |
| Date: | 11 24 1942 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers on a production line at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. The women inspect small metal parts used in war production. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Close-up of factory worker Dorothy Ozen wearing safety glasses while operating a drill press used in war production at International Harvester's West Pullm... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Lorraine Larsen, a lathe operator, tends to a bolt body for the 20 mm cannon at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker wearing an apron readies a shell turning machine for operation at International Harvester's New Brighton Works. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A female worker applies paint to a piece of an Army air-borne invasion tank in a booth at International Harvester's Indianapolis branch house. |
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| Description: | Six female flight nurses posing outdoors. The women are wearing bathing suits and holding life vests around their necks at the at Alameda Naval Air Strip d... |
| Date: | 04 1945 |
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| Description: | A nurse sleeping at battle stations aboard the USS Relief in the China Sea. The nurse is wearing a jumpsuit and has a piece of cloth tied in her hai... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A flight nurse in an anoxic faint chamber, used to simulate high altitude flying with little oxygen, placing an oxygen mask over a male patient's face. He ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Mosher climbing into a biplane. She is wears leather pants and a jacket. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Informal outdoor portrait of Dorothy Mosher wearing flying gear. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Mosher and Pat Hoskins leaning against an airplane. |
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| Description: | Flight nurses wearing leather suits, hoods, and oxygen masks during training in an anoxia chamber. |
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