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Eddystone Rifle Plant

LOC Title
Profiling extractors - Eddystone Rifle Plant, Eddystone, Pa.
LOC Summary
Photo shows a woman, three-quarter length, standing, facing right, operating a profiling extractor machine at the Eddystone Ammunitions Plant, Eddystone, Pennsylvania, during World War I.
LOC Contributor Names
United States. Army. Signal Corps, photographer
LOC Created/Published
[between 1914 and 1918]
LOC Standardized Date
1914
LOC Subject Headings
- Women--Employment--Pennsylvania--Eddystone--1910-1920
- Ordnance industry--Pennsylvania--Eddystone--1910-1920
- Arms & armament--Pennsylvania--Eddystone--1910-1920
- War work--Pennsylvania--Eddystone--1910-1920
- World War, 1914-1918--Women--Pennsylvania--Eddystone
- World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Pennsylvania--Eddystone
LOC Notes
Title from item.
- U.S. Army Signal Corps photo. No. 31741.
- Exhibited: "World War I : American Artists View the Great War" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May - November 2016.
EEC Creators
EEC Source Year
1914
EEC Format
EEC Type of Source
EEC Index Number
208
EEC Topics