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Refrigerators to bombers. Before conversion of her employer's plant to war production, Gertie Saurborn worked silver-soldering tubes on float cases for refrigerators. She still works for the same employer but now she tests regulators which her firm makes for use in Army and Navy bombers

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Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches).
Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 36, frame 369.

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