Conversion. Auto body plant. A job often delegated to women in aircraft manufacture is touching up metal braces on ailerons with paint before wing structure is completed. This picture was taken in one of America's automobile body plants newly converted to airplane production. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 1794.
Tags
Date
01/01/1942
Location
detroit
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain