Women workers wiring molds

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Description

View of women workers wiring molds. Label on back: "Picture 74851. Wiring the mold. Girls put in place 480 small wires per half mold to reinforce the sand. Each of 12 girls installs 40 wires per mold. A second jolting process then vibrates the mold after all sand and wires are in place." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."

Details

Resource ID:: na040293
Subject:: Women aircraft industry employees; Automotive Council for War Production--Archives; Photographic prints
Date:: 1942-1945
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 10 x 8 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.