Graduates of the first Chevrolet Lubrication School for Women

View of graduates of the first Chevrolet Lubrication School for Women, posing at desks in a classroom. Signs in background read: "Lubrication, saves the wheels that save America," "Chevrolet Lubrication School for Women," "Business comes where it is invited and stays where it is well treated," "Second step, top side lubrication" and "Your plan, step 2, top side lubrication." Printed on front: "Birmingham View Company." Label on back: "Southern women replace men. True to American tradition, women of the south, in this great global war, are taking over the work of their menfolks, who are now in the Armed Forces. The picture above shows 11 graduates of the first Chevrolet Lubrication School for Women conducted under factory auspices in Birmingham, Ala. These 'lubricatresses' are taking the places of men in the lubrication departments of the Wood Chevrolet Motor Company, Birmingham; Drennen Motor Car Company, Bessemer, Ala., and the Al DeMent Chevrolet Company, North Birmingham. The women displayed such interest in the initial school, and are doing such splendid work for the dealers that several addition schools in the Birmingham zone are being planned." Stamped on back: "General Motors Photographic." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."