Women workers inspecting torpedo parts, International Harvester Company
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Description
View of women workers inspecting torpedo parts at the International Harvester Company. Label on back: "Aircraft torpedo manufacture. International Harvester Company, 180 No. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. I-22-GG. Women are employed by the company to inspect the many hundreds of small parts used in the torpedo. They work with small precision gauges and micrometers. All are new employes trained for this special work. Prior to becoming torpedo inspectors they were tool crib attendants, dress designers, writers, etc. Jan. 13, 1943." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na040306
- Subject:
- Women blue collar workers
- Torpedoes--Inspection
- International Harvester Company
- Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1943-01-13
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 10 x 8 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.