Women working in ordnance plants in World War I: making fibre powder containers for 3" Stokes gun - women crimping top on fibre containers at W.C. Ritchie & Co., Chicago, Ill.

Photograph shows two women sitting at a long bench, crimping the tops onto fibre powder containers for a 3" Stokes gun, at the W.C. Ritchie & Co. facility in Chicago, Illinois, during World War I.

Inscribed on lower left corner of photo, after the Signal Corps emblem: 30252.
Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2017 - June 2018.