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USA: Women hard at work in the shipyear, 1942. FASCINATING photos from the Second World War show how invaluable women were to the United States??? war effort ??" with millions of women picking up the jobs their partners, brothers, sons and fathers had left behind to fight for their country. Remarkable shots, many of them never published before, show industrious women employed as shipbuilders, railroad staff, and steel workers. Another remarkable shot shows a female labourer donning a plastic bra, a device which purported to help prevent chest-related accidents in the workplace. Mediadrumimages/PublicDomain
2019-09-03
Mediadrumimages/PublicDomain /Media Drum/East News
Media Drum
Mediadrumimages/PublicDomain
MDRUM_WAR_WORK_FOR_WOMEN-2
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25cm x 20cm by 300dpi
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