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Berlin's first and only woman auto mechanic / photo by Underwood & Underwood, Inc. – Vintage Photo Print

Berlin's first and only woman auto mechanic / photo by Underwood & Underwood, Inc., [between 1920 and 1940(?)] — historic photograph
Berlin's first and only woman auto mechanic / photo by Underwood & Underwood, Inc., [between 1920 and 1940(?)]. Historic photograph from the Automobiles collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Berlin's first and only woman auto mechanic / photo by Underwood & Underwood, Inc.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Berlin's first and only woman auto mechanic / photo by Underwood & Underwood, Inc.

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Few women in interwar Germany worked as mechanics, which makes this photograph of a Berlin woman at work on an automobile engine unusual. The title calls her the city's first and only woman auto mechanic, a claim the record presents without further detail, so it is best read as a press-style boast from the period. Underwood & Underwood, the New York photo agency, distributed images like this widely, and pictures of women taking on male-dominated trades were a popular way to show modern working life in the 1920s and 1930s.

Created / published[between 1920 and 1940(?)]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1940.
NotesNo. S/Y-10889X1026.
SubjectsWomen--Employment--Germany--Berlin--1920-1940. Mechanics (Persons)--1920-1940. Automobiles--Germany--Berlin--1920-1940. Engines--1920-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,265 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-185030

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