Joan M. Klatil and Stanley F. Parker at Cadillac design studio

View of Joan M. Klatil and Stanley F. Parker, designers for the General Motors Cadillac design studio, posing at drafting table. Models of cars in background; drawings and drafting tools on table. Typed on back: "Joan M. Klatil became the first female designer assigned to a production passenger car exterior design studio at General Motors Styling (and probably in the United States) when she entered the Cadillac studio this year. General Motors hired the auto industry's first woman designer in 1943 and since that time has employed at least one female designer in each of its five passenger car interior studios. Miss Klatil attended GM Styling's Summer Design Program in 1965 and was assigned to the Design Development Studio on joining General Motors in July, 1966. A native of Cleveland and graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, she is shown here with Stanley F. Parker, chief designer in the Cadillac Studio."