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Seamstresses Milagros "Mille" Cueto (left) and Aurora Goicoechea (right) take customer's measurements; the customer is Brenda Freytes.

Women aircraft workers. That Hollywood hasn't yet cornered the beauty market is evident by this assembly line crew at a West Coast airplane factory. They're making electrical sub-assemblies in a continuous-line production

Women aircraft workers. That Hollywood hasn't yet cornered the beauty market is evident by this assembly line crew at a West Coast airplane factory. They're making electrical sub-assemblies in a continuous-line production

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De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. The ladies sewing circle has a grim meaning in De Land, Florida these days. Here's one of its daily sessions, sewing fabric on airplane wings they hope will be flying over Germany some day soon. Nearest the camera is Joyce Newsom, instructor in De Land's vocational school, giving lessons in the new art of sewing to two grandmothers. Left is Mrs. Gussie Ryals, who has an invalid husband and five grandchildren. Right is Mrs. Ruth Klug, whose husband fought through the first World War, who has two grandchildren, and a boy in a bombing squadron in Australia. Both grandmothers soon will take their places on the assembly line of an aircraft factory

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Alene Green of De Land, Florida, with two sons in the Army and one in the Navy, still felt she wasn't doing enough. So she enrolled in the De Land Vocational School to learn how to put fabric on airplane wings. Within a month she'll be on the assembly line of the Babcock plant, prime contractors for De Land's community industrial pool

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Alene Green of De Land, Florida, with two sons in the Army and one in the Navy, still felt she wasn't doing enough. So she enrolled in the De Land Vocational School to learn how to put fabric on airplane wings. Within a month she'll be on the assembly line of the Babcock plant, prime contractors for De Land's community industrial pool

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Eleanor Lane was a widow supporting her two children as an interior decorator. When her hometown of De Land, Florida pooled its manpower and machines to go into war work, she gave up her business and went along. She is shown learning aircraft fabric work in the vocational school set up to train workers for the war plant

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These two Daytona Beach, Florida housewives talk war work and welding like their grandmothers talked about the weekly quilting society, as they learn to take their places on a war production line in the Volusia County Vocational School. Mrs. Nancy H. Herbert, left, has a son in the Navy. Mrs. Anna E. Larrabee, right, is a grandmother who has one son in the Navy, a second in the Marines, a third in the Canal Zone as a war worker, and a fourth son who is now an aviation mechanic

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Eleanor Lane was a widow supporting her two children as an interior decorator. When her hometown of De Land, Florida pooled its manpower and machines to go into war work, she gave up her business and went along. She is shown learning aircraft fabric work in the vocational school set up to train workers for the war plant

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These two Daytona Beach, Florida housewives talk war work and welding like their grandmothers talked about the weekly quilting society, as they learn to take their places on a war production line in the Volusia County Vocational School. Mrs. Nancy H. Herbert, left, has a son in the Navy. Mrs. Anna E. Larrabee, right, is a grandmother who has one son in the Navy, a second in the Marines, a third in the Canal Zone as a war worker, and a fourth son who is now an aviation mechanic

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women of De Land, Florida went to school with their men-folk to learn welding and aircraft fabric work in preparation for the De Land million-dollar war contract. Above Mrs. Ruby Shie, left, former nurse with a husband and one child, and Mrs. William Tomlinson, former bookkeeper and secretary with one child, are getting ready for the time when they will take their place on the plant assembly line to turn out fighter planes for the Air Corps

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. A De Land, Florida fruit buyer and a carpenter, both over fifty, now doing aircraft welding which is passing army inspectors without a single rejection. Typical of the men of De Land who went into war production are John W. Smith, left, fifty-two, with five children and three granddaughters; and Lape Fridell, right, fifty-six, with three children. They are learning their new trade in the De Land welding school, before going to work in the De Land pool

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. The ladies sewing circle has a grim meaning in De Land, Florida these days. Here's one of its daily sessions, sewing fabric on airplane wings they hope will be flying over Germany some day soon. Nearest the camera is Joyce Newsom, instructor in De Land's vocational school, giving lessons in the new art of sewing to two grandmothers. Left is Mrs. Gussie Ryals, who has an invalid husband and five grandchildren. Right is Mrs. Ruth Klug, whose husband fought through the first World War, who has two grandchildren, and a boy in a bombing squadron in Australia. Both grandmothers soon will take their places on the assembly line of an aircraft factory

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Chaudoin Hall, John B. Stetson University, De Land, Fla

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Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, June 25, 1906

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Joe Wheeler Miller of De Land, Florida is doing his part in making machinery that will keep American fighting planes in the air. He was named after a southern general, Joe Wheeler, by a father who thought the General was "the fightinest man he knew" and wanted his son to be likewise. He ran a fishing tackle business that went out with priorities. Although he never had an arc welding holder in his hands before entering the De Land vocational school, he and another similarly trained man have acquired speed that has doubled the Babcock production

Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. A Japanese-American girl in the apartment she has arranged for her husband and herself in the barrack building

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, June 27, 1911

Ruth series. Threshing floor, winnowing, etc

Mrs. Tony Totore or Totoro?, 428 E. 116th St. 2nd floor back, makes from $2.00 to $2.50 a week making lace for a Contracter, Mrs. Rosina Schiaffo, 301 E 114th St, 3rd floor. Mrs. Sohiaffo, in turn, sends her lace to a manufacturer, M. Weber Co., 230 E 52nd St. Husband and two children, 4 and 7 yrs. Old. Mrs. Totoro said, "I rather work for a factory. They pay more." Husband is a cement laborer with irregular work. Location: New York, New York (State)

Joseph Teshon, Inc. plant manager examines fabric sample in his office.

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") for lend-lease shipment to the USSR at the Kroger grocery and baking company. Girls placing lard, spice and onions in cans before the pork is added. Left to right: Bonnie Williams, age twenty-one, used to work in shirt factory, has a husband in the U.S. Army; Elta Wininger, age twenty-nine, ex-housewife, has a brother in North Africa

Washington, D.C. Jewal Mazique [i.e. Jewel], worker at the Library of Congress, getting dinner for her husband who interns at Howard University Hospital

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp. Trainees and instructor

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florida volusia county de land film negatives land pool de land pool plane fabric ladies circle sessions airplane wings airplane wings hope germany camera joyce newsom joyce newsom instructor school lessons art grandmothers two grandmothers gussie ryals gussie ryals husband grandchildren five grandchildren ruth klug ruth klug world first world war two grandchildren boy australia places line aircraft factory aviators female portrait woman photograph 1940 s 40 s library of congress wwii