Digital Collection
2025.066.009

Print, Photographic

A black-and-white photograph of men and women putting rivets into a wing section of a B-24E (Liberator) Bomber in Ford Motor Company's Willow Run plant. There are multiple levels of people putting rivets into the wing section on the left, as a man on the right in the foreground is posing for the camera. A woman welder can be seen sitting down on a stool, which reads "DEPARTMENT 936". On the verso of the photograph, it is written in pencil, in cursive, "Women in war work", and, in print, "W.W. II". Additionally, there is a stamp on this verso reading, in print,

Photograph
By
The Detroit News
Not to be published

Date
c. 1942
Year Range From
1941
Year Range To
1945
Collection
Print Size
10" x 8.25"
Studio
Detroit News
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