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Feminine vanity still demands attention, even in the nation's busy aircraft factories. At Cessna Aircraft Company's plant in Wichita, Kansas, Miss Mina Weber takes a quick time out for facial repair, using a gleaming sheet of aluminum in the stock room as a mirror

Women aircraft workers. Perched high on the wing of a giant bomber, women of a large West Coast aircraft factory are speeding the installation of electrical units controlling the engine. In this, as in many other U.S. plants, women are gradually replacing or augmenting men on assembly lines, doing important and highly critical work and doing it well

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Emily Sauermilch, baker, has taken her place in America's army of war workers. Employed in a large Midwest supercharger plant, she puts the finishing touches on impellors part of the airplane motor. Allis Manufacture Company

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 become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the school at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

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

Conversion. Auto body plant. A job often delegated to women in aircraft manufacture is touching up metal braces on ailerons with paint before wing structure is completed. This picture was taken in one of America's automobile body plants newly converted to airplane production. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan

Women aircraft workers. Remember Pearl Harbor? She can't forget it, for Fern Evans's husband was one of America's fighting men who died in action on December 7. Since February, Mrs. Evans has worked for victory at a huge West Coast aircraft plant and is shown here operating a rivet squeezer

A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on the side of the fuselage of a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee

Feminine vanity still demands attention, even in the nation's busy aircraft factories. At Cessna Aircraft Company's plant in Wichita, Kansas, Miss Mina Weber takes a quick time out for facial repair, using a gleaming sheet of aluminum in the stock room as a mirror

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Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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1940 s women mirror stock room room stock aluminum sheet repair miss mina weber weber mina miss plant cessna aircraft company company cessna aircraft factories factories aircraft nation demands attention attention demands feminine vanity vanity feminine wichita kan safety film negatives wichita sedgwick county kansas female portrait woman photograph young woman 1940 s 40 s stockphoto raw image photo online free free no copyright images library of congress
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01/01/1940
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United States. Office for Emergency Management.
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Wichita (Kan.) ,  37.69222, -97.33750
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1940 s women mirror stock room room stock aluminum sheet repair miss mina weber weber mina miss plant cessna aircraft company company cessna aircraft factories factories aircraft nation demands attention attention demands feminine vanity vanity feminine wichita kan safety film negatives wichita sedgwick county kansas female portrait woman photograph young woman 1940 s 40 s stockphoto raw image photo online free free no copyright images library of congress