Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.
Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif.
1942 Oct.
1 transparency : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
Douglas Aircraft Company
Airplane industry
Women--Employment
World War, 1939-1945
Assembly-line methods
United States--California--Long Beach
Format: Transparencies--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-39 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35357
Call Number: LC-USW36-130
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Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif.
1942 Oct.
1 transparency : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
Douglas Aircraft Company
Airplane industry
Women--Employment
World War, 1939-1945
Assembly-line methods
United States--California--Long Beach
Format: Transparencies--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-39 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35357
Call Number: LC-USW36-130
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ronjon=supergenius
Rosie the Riveter has nothing on this woman! She looks pretty tough!
descriptive bottle
I am so inspired by what these women did!
treebythesea
That is so awesome! I feel like more of that should be going on today.
hallowed ink
I love the look on her face...
kostia
This title may as well say Women "can be" trained! It's so subtly of its era.
thedarkdonthideit
not only are these pictures historically interesting, they are top quality, crystal clear reproductions. my best find on flickr!
Converse and Bowling Shirts
this should be in the strobist pool ;)
Dita2711
You mean women can be pretty, AND smart as well?.....Love it. Great image.
handpainter
Cool, this is the very job my mom had during WW2.
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personne.de.chandigarh
A nostalgic image from the era of piston aero engines.
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Little Boffin (PeterEdin)
Looks like a Pratt & Whitnet Wasp getting fitted to a DC-3 :-)
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Great shot
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probably Bearcat?
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greta stuff -- Seen on my Flickr home page. (?)
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Ditto Handpainter! My Mom worked right alongside Rosie, they don't get enough credit for their hard work! You know why they were so invaluable? Their hands were smaller and could fit in places their male counterparts couldn't reach ;) I love seeing these pix!
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Wow! Congrat.
john hicks
i live in long beach. w00t
narrow bird
I wonder if that was what they actually wore then to do the work
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photonut-mi
maybe we should be making more personal aircraft similar to this instead of multipassenger behemoths these days Looks like they'ed be fun to fly in.
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;))
nikitin sasha
great!!!
docpi
It is after some consideration about proper and useful working postures that I have come to the conclusion that the pose is too artificial to be realistic. Especially the forceps arms impose quite a sense of impracticality. "It's all for the camera, darling. Gotta make engineering work interesting for the reading public."
jelipebmxer
AJUA!!
Rod van Ausdall
The left arm could easily be pulling an element aside while the right makes an adjustment.
docpi
Could be, 1 Rod, could be. I was wondering how agile you can be and how much leverage you can exert when working with such outstreched arms, and how much visual feedback you can get at that distance and from that perspective. That just does not appear to be an effective posture for engineering work. The male instructor supervising the work from above, appearing into view like an intervening supreme heavenly being in conjunction with the caption give the picture subtones of patronizing condescendence, not of defiant confidence and proud heroism. But thenm you see, this was the 1940s, so nobody really noticed. Maybe it even matched expectations or it was what you could dare to depict within the narrow limits of allowable - and under the circumstances of those times - necessary emancipation.
Rod van Ausdall
As a combat vet of WWII (Yes, I understand about the forties) perhaps I was "taking sides"; however as a working engineer and one who worked on rockets, in some tough positions, I think the posture not all that unrealistic. My sister worked in a "war plant" when I was in the millitary. Peace.
photonut-mi
after reading others comments. and rechecking this photo . I'd bet the photographer caught them working on the project and perhaps they were focused on the job at hand and not on the photo shooter. I'd say she was using left hand for balance and holding a wrench on right hand so the other worker could tighten a nut that would be critical to be tight in use of engine. Thanks to all those dedicated people who all worked together to solve problems in Manufacturing.
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Warm Greetings: After WWII, my father returned home and began cross country truck driving, later completed college schooling as an artisit, and technical illustrator. When I was still young (but old enough to remember), he'd take me to work with him on occassion at the Brooklyn Ship Yards, where my father was on government contract. I remember seeing the huge ships that were under construction there- just as awesome as the photo above. In later years we moved to Long Island, lived a stone's throw from Grumman's air filed and aircraft manufacturers; it was a common sight to see full scale plane construction of transport, and new jet planes rolling off the assembly line. It also served as a test field. We also lived close to the active military base at Mitchell Field, between Uniondale and Garden City/ Westbury, NY- I visited these places and it was amazing to go in the hangers and see huge engines, huge transport planes, jets, and fighter planes on the tarmac, some of which rumbled the ground and broke the sound barrier over our homes! The mechanics we met would explain how critical their jobs were, in keeping the planes in shape, and ready to take flight at a moments notice. During the war years, women played an enormous part in the war effort. This photo brings many memories to mind... Fantastic!
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How Remarkably Wonderful!!!
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Fantastic image.
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I love it! -- Seen on my Flickr home page. (?)
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great shot!!!
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Es una foto preciosa.
jrbabbitt
I used to work in that very same building (Bldg 12) years ago, it has been since torn down and most of the plant gone.
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cool maintenance rocks!! :):):)
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I love training women!
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Cracking shot!
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excellent shot..!!!
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Super Photograph! Very informative.
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Reverend Doctor Wizard ďIsney
My mother worked at that plant, on Lakewood Bl. and Carson, within the Long Beach Airport complex, in the 1960's. Boeing bought it, stripped the programs and the plant, and now it's a dusty vacant lot.
RichardDemingPhotography
America has lost it's drive to build things in lieu of profits and the almighty dollar and no one will just say STOP..~!
Muhammad Ramzan
wondeful Very Beautiful shot.
Christopher Anderlik
ne gute arbeit - sieht sehr gut aus
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WillJL
America just up and got hardcore during WWII, didn't we?
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succesful edit.congrats !...
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NICE!!!
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Beautiful.Vrey nice
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love it
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excelent shot!! great!!
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Magnífica !!!
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when the image was small (before i clicked on it) it looked as if she was dancing with a telescope and there were stars in the background, perhaps at a museum...
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There are a lot excellent features in this shot.
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Tramma tree to me, but where's the Mudda at.
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very nice shot
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I thought its time machine!
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bonnevillebob
Pratt Whitney r-2800 18 cylinder engine?
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herrbelial
cool engine
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Awesome shoes.
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but what you are not taking into account is the photography of the day. Flash bulbs dangerous in inflammable sites. But what exactly is the plane. still its a great picture.
frankdom
why is the lassie not wearing headgear----surely essential safety measure?
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oknation
WoW !!!
Colin Howell
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobel1165 Nope, that's a Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp. 14 cylinders, not 18, but still twin-row. For a C-47 transport (military DC-3).
Colin Howell
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10477733@N03 The plane was a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport, the military version of the DC-3. They were built by the thousands during World War 2, both in Douglas's Long Beach plant shown here and in other plants. Many went on to have long careers in airline service, still using engines like this.
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Cooles Bild, gefällt mir.
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✨🌟★❤✯♥♡✨ Very beautiful ✨♡♥✯❤★🌟✨
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Great one