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Title
Women inspecting nylon parachutes at a factory during World War II, 1941-1945
Date Created and/or Issued
1941/1945
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
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 inspecting nylon parachutes at a factory during World War II, 1941-1945. At center, a long, light-colored parachute is stretched out on a long wooden table. A woman in a floral-print dress is looking inside the chute at left. Another woman can be seen in the distance at right. At left, another long table can be seen, while at right several folded parachutes are visible on a table.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20471
USC-2-1-1-11157 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-33228
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20471
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-33228.jpg
Subject
Industry--Aeronautics--General
Parachutes
Industrial sites
Time Period
1941/1945
Place
California
USA
Source
33228 [Accession number]
84-1-1302 [Microfiche number]
CHS-33228 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 223 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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