Women workers inspecting cylinder barrels
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Description
View of women workers inspecting cylinder barrels for Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines. Label on back: "2,000 h.p. Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine, cylinder barrels. Photograph #75080. This view is of final inspection where all dimensions and finishes are checked. These inspection views show what 'automotive' production women can and are doing in the all out war effort." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na040285
- Subject:
- Women aircraft industry employees
- Airplanes--Motors--Cylinders--Inspection
- 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, 90:8
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.