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Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Stella Wolos, who was a sewing machine operator, is grinding a drawing angle on a cartridge die in the Passaic, New Jersey shop of the Howe Machinery Company. This concern is training a number of young women for war production jobs

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Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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Date

01/01/1942

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Contributors

Liberman, Howard, photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

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Location

Passaic, 40.85677, -74.12848

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Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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