Woman worker riveting the wing of a Grumman Avenger bomber
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Description
View of a woman riveting the wing of a Grumman Avenger bomber at the Trenton plant of the Eastern Aircraft Division of General Motors. Label on back: "Here is a woman riveter working on the enormous wing surface of an 'Avenger' for the U.S. Navy. This picture was taken at the Trenton plant of the Eastern Aircraft Division of General Motors where the formidable planes have replaced automotive hardware on the assembly line." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na040174
- Subject:
- Women aircraft industry employees
- Grumman Avenger (Torpedo bomber)--Design and construction
- Rivets and riveting, Aircraft
- General Motors Corporation. Eastern Aircraft Division
- Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1942-1945
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Women workers, 90:4
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.