Engl. women in ship yds. – Vintage 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: Engl. women in ship yds., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Engl. women in ship yds.
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The caption names English women working in shipyards, though the library notes that its title comes from unverified data on the negative or caption card. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency, distributed images like this to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century. Shipyard work drew many British women during the First World War, when wartime demand and the call-up of men left serious labor shortages. The record gives no date, so the picture is best read as one part of that broader story of women entering trades that had been closed to them.
| 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 | 5,778 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27059 |
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