Woman worker operating a grinding machine, International Harvester Company
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Description
View of a woman worker operating a grinding machine for torpedo manufacture at the International Harvester Company. Label on back: "Aircraft torpedo manufacture. International Harvester Company, 180 No. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. I-35-GG. This woman employe on torpedo production operates a grinding machine. The part she is shown measuring with a micrometer must be machined to a tolerance of .0005 or 1/2 thousandths of an inch. Trained in a special course for this work, she had only a few months' prior experience as a machine operator. She sets up her own machine for the work. Jan. 13, 1943." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na040304
- Subject:
- Women blue collar workers
- Grinding machines
- Torpedoes--Design and construction
- International Harvester Company
- Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1943-01-13
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Women workers, 90:9
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.