Conversion. Auto body plant. This Negro worker is dipping wing section of an airplane in bath, a necessary process prior to painting. Location: a large Midwest factory, recently converted from manufacture of automobile bodies to essential war production. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
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Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 1787.