Geraldine Bower tuning up a Detroit Diesel engine
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Description
View of Geraldine Bower tuning up a Detroit Diesel engine at the San Francisco Marine Corps Depot of Supplies. Label on back: "From: Detroit Diesel Engine Division, General Motors Corporation, Detroit 23, Michigan. Approved for publication by Navy Dept. For immediate release. Marine Pfc Geraldine Bower gives a reverse twist to the old story that a woman's place in is the home as she tunes up a series 71 Detroit Diesel engine at the San Francisco Marine Corps Depot of Supplies. Official U.S. Marine Corps Photo." Stamped on back: "General Motors Photographic Section, G.M. Research Bldg., Detroit 2, Michigan. Please refer to this number when ordering prints." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Details
- Creator:
- United States. Marine Corps
- GM Photographic
- Resource ID:
- na040236
- Subject:
- Women automobile industry workers
- Automobile mechanics
- General Motors Corporation. Detroit Diesel Engine 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, 90:6
- Negative Number:
- 72419-1
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.