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TITLE:  Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Virginia Young (right) whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of the state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill

CALL NUMBER:  LC-USW36-78 <P&P>[P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-fsac-1a34888 (digital file from original transparency)
LC-USW361-78 (color film copy slide)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM:  1 transparency : color.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  1942 August

CREATOR:

Hollem, Howard R., photographer.

NOTES:

Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.

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SUBJECTS:

United States.--Navy
Airplane industry
Women--Employment
Air bases
World War, 1939-1945
Civil service
United States--Texas--Corpus Christi

FORMAT:

Transparencies Color

PART OF:  Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-18

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original transparency) fsac 1a34888 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34888

CONTROL #:  fsa1992000913/PP



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