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Title: Woman aircraft welder
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
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Description: Women in the highly skilled brackets of aircraft trades are rare, but Vultee Aircraft, Inc. numbers several among its female personnel. Here Blanche Patton makes an aluminum weld on the hopper assembly for a basic trainer oil tank on February 14, 1942.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049090
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9271.
CARL0000052946
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17374
Subject: Patton, Blanche
Vultee Aircraft, Inc
World War, 1939-1945
Women employees--California
Airplane factories--California
Welding
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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