Virginia Walker riding motorcycle for the Ed O'Dea Chevrolet Company
View of Virginia (Mickey) Walker posing on a motorcycle for the Ed O'Dea Chevrolet Company. "O'Dea parts and service" is painted on storage container. Label on back: "An expert motorcyclist, comely, neatly and attractively attired, Miss Virginia (Mickey) Walker, employed on parts pick up and car deliveries, is effectively relieving the manpower shortage for the Ed O'Dea Chevrolet Co., Des Moines, Iowa. She is a fast worker -- twice as fast, says the management, as any man previously engaged in this work. She assumes full responsibility for her job, asking no favors of men in the Service Department. If a car with a run-down battery needs to be hand-cranked to be brought into the shop, she wields the crank herself, and to date has not failed to 'get her car.'" Stamped on back: "General Motors Photographic. Refer to this number when ordering prints." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
- Creator:
- GM Photographic
- Resource ID:
- na040280
- Subject:
- Women motorcyclists
- Motorcycles
- 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
- Negative Number:
- 66709-1
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.