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Production Line Worker

Date: 1935
Description: A woman factory worker sorting parts at Globe Union Manufacturing Company, maker of batteries, radio apparatus, and spark plugs.
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Woman Holding Artillery Shell

Date: 06 1953
Description: Factory worker holding an artillery shell manufactured at Malleable Iron Range Co.
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Woman Working in 20 mm Gun Plant

Date: 05 25 1942
Description: Female factory worker operating a broaching machine at International Harvester's 20 millimeter gun plant. Caption on photograph reads: "This American hydra...
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Woman Operating a Surface Grinder at War Plant

Date: 05 25 1942
Description: Female factory worker operates a surface grinder at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "This woman employe...
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Automatic Shell Turning Operation at New Brighton Works

Date: 12 27 1944
Description: A female factory worker wearing an apron readies a shell turning machine for operation at International Harvester's New Brighton Works.
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Factory Worker

Date: 1972
Description: An employee of the Chase Bag company, who was also a member of the Amagalamted Meatcutters and Butcherworkers of North America, stitches at a sewing machin...

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