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Bantam, Connecticut. The kapok room in the Warren McArthur upholstery shop is screened off to prevent the feathery filling from flying freely about the plant. Expert at stuffing kapok into cushions are Barbara Skilton and Frances Humphrey. Barbara, at left, lives in Morris, the next town to Bantam, at her father's farm, where several other workers in the plant board. Her husband works at the Waterbury Brass Company, and they have a son two years old. Frances, a graduate of Litchfield High School, prefers this work to the secretarial position she used to have in Torrington. "There is more money, and you don't have to worry about it at night," she says. Both girls began work in Bantam in December, 1941

Bantam, Connecticut. The kapok room in the Warren McArthur upholstery ...

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Bantam, Connecticut. While Patsy DiGiovanni puts kapok through the filler machine, which fluffs it out, Chet Wash is stuffing the back cushion of bomber pilot's seat in the upholstery shop of the Warren McArthur Corporation. Patsy came to work here in April 1941, from his native Torrington, where he had been driving a taxicab. He still lives in Torrington. Wash learned upholstery on a NYA (National Youth Administration) project in his native town of Plains, Pennsylvania. He's been in Bantam since June 1941, living in a furnished room

Bantam, Connecticut. While Patsy DiGiovanni puts kapok through the fil...

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One of the essential materials in the making of life preservers for our navy is kapok, which we obtain in quantity only from the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines. Here it has been baled and is ready for shipment from a Dutch East Indies plantation

One of the essential materials in the making of life preservers for ou...

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Bantam, Connecticut. A bale of kapok a week is the normal consumption of the Warren McArthur upholstery shop. Here Harold Curran is loosening fresh kapok from the bale. The filler machine into whose funnel he drops the kapok blows it into the bag behind him. Curran, whose main outside interest is amatuer theatricals, studied for a year at Manhattan College, then worked for B. Altman and Bloomingdale's, large department stores in New York City. He also traveled for some months for the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Bantam, Connecticut. A bale of kapok a week is the normal consumption ...

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Bantam, Connecticut. A bale of kapok a week is the normal consumption of the Warren McArthur upholstery shop. Here Harold Curran is loosening fresh kapok from the bale. The filler machine into whose funnel he drops the kapok blows it into the bag behind him. Curran, whose main outside interest is amatuer theatricals, studied for a year at Manhattan College, then worked for B. Altman and Bloomingdale's, large department stores in New York City. He also traveled for some months for the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Bantam, Connecticut. A bale of kapok a week is the normal consumption ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More