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Title: Female war worker
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Erickson, Musse
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: Vivienne Worl is working on a P-38 plane at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in Burbank on July 28, 1943. Note her cap, button flap on trousers, low-heeled closed-toes shoes. This costume is correct for working on planes. It and others were to be introduced at a Lockheed fashion show July 29, and women of Lockheed would be able to buy these costumes.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049095
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9271.
CARL0000052974
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17402
Subject: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Airplane factories--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Women employees--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
World War, 1939-1945
War work
Uniforms--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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