Women working on plane prop, Engl. – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Women working on plane prop, Engl., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Women working on plane prop, Engl.
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Few pictures in the Bain collection show wartime labor as directly as this view of women working on an aircraft propeller in England. The record gives no date, but the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency, was active in the years around the First World War, when British aircraft works employed many women to replace men who had gone to the front. Early propellers were often made of laminated wood and finished by hand, so the scene shows both the skill the work demanded and the shift in who was doing it. The title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact site and date remain open.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,779 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27060 |
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