Women workers repairing automobile axle, Chrysler Pittsburgh Company
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Description
View of Arietta M. Treadway, Hodgie L. Little and Willodae White repairing an automobile axle at the Chrysler Pittsburgh Company. Label on back: "Here are three of the eight women who are doing practically all kinds of service work, including motor and rear axle repairing, in the Service Department of the Newport News Automobile Exchange, Chevrolet dealer in Newport News, Va. Engaged in an axle repair operation are (left to right) Miss Arietta M. Treadway, formerly a telephone operator; Mrs. Hodgie L. Little, formerly a house wife, whose husband is now in the U.S. Army, and Miss Willodae White, formerly a clerk in a five and ten cent store." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na040269
- Subject:
- Women automobile industry workers
- Automobile mechanics
- Chrysler Pittsburgh Company
- Automobiles--Axles--Maintenance and repair
- 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, 90:7
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.