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Title: Female war worker
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: General Motors Photographic
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Mrs. Virginia Buechler is shown in her new job as inspector of Allison aircraft engine crankshafts in a Detroit plant of the Cadillac Division of General Motors on November 3, 1943. She is the 100,000th GM woman war worker.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049096
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9271.
CARL0000052975
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17403
Subject: Buechler, Virginia
General Motors Corporation
Airplane factories--Michigan--Detroit
Women employees--Michigan--Detroit
World War, 1939-1945
War work
Detroit (Mich.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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