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Title: Female war workers
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
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: Grace Wymett, in front, and Jackie Wyatt are among the several women at Vultee Aircraft who operate drill presses in the drilling, reaming, counter-boring and chamfering of various small parts and fittings for military planes. Some machine shop women have qualified for skilled positions such as that of hand turret lathe operators. Photo date: February 14, 1942.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049101
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9271.
CARL0000053056
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17451
Subject: Wymett, Grace
Wyatt, Jackie
Vultee Aircraft, Inc
Airplane factories--California
Women employees--California
World War, 1939-1945
War work
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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