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Title
Women workers in an unidentified electronics office, ca.1950
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1950
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of women workers in an unidentified electronics office, ca.1950. At center in the background extending to the foreground, a group fo four women workers can be seen sitting on stools adjacent to a large table. On each table, a large light can be seen. Additionally, an adjustable microscope is seen for the in front of the two women on the right. Two small boxes can be seen sitting on the table beside the woman in the far background. To her right, another box is visible being handled by the female worker. The other women greatly obscure the objects that they are working on with their arms and hands. Other electronic equipment and boxes can be seen on the tables. In the extreme background on the left, a single chair can be seen sitting next to several circuit boxes.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10640
USC-2-1-1-10789 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40914
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10640
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40914.jpg
Subject
Electronics
Women--Employment
Industry--Plants--Interiors--Women workers
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1950
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40914 [Accession number]
84-1-2052 [Microfiche number]
CHS-40914 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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