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Title: Wiggins Trade School women
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: War has taken away many a "guy with the monkey wrench," and so today industrial schools are opening new courses for women auto mechanics to fill the gap. At the Frank Wiggins Trade School here women students, wearing overalls, are shown working on Army trucks on September 14, 1943, as part of their training.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00056861
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2637.
CARL0000060009
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23185
Subject: Los Angeles Trade Technical College
Schools--California--Los Angeles
Vocational education--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
World War, 1939-1945
Truck mechanics--California--Los Angeles

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