Women auxiliary police officers, Studebaker plant
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Description
View of Sergeant Buczkowski inspecting women auxiliary police officers at the Studebaker plant. Label on back: "'Pistol packin' mamas' actually exist outside of the song to which the high school set is currently swooning. Originally an experiment at Studebaker's aircraft engine plant in South Bend, Ind., a uniformed policewoman staff has been expanded to an even dozen, many of whom have sons or husbands in military service. Above, Sergt. Buczkowski inspects Officers Murphy, Wideman, Hass, Marx and Chapman of the patrol." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na040290
- Subject:
- Police, Private
- Policewomen
- Auxiliary military police
- Studebaker Company
- 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.