Women Working in Plants | Eagle Eye Citizen

LOC URL

https://www.loc.gov/item/2004673217/

LOC Title

Women working in ordnance plants in World War I: making fibre powder containers for 3" Stokes gun - women crimping top on fibre containers at W.C. Ritchie & Co., Chicago, Ill.

LOC Summary

Photograph shows two women sitting at a long bench, crimping the tops onto fibre powder containers for a 3" Stokes gun, at the W.C. Ritchie & Co. facility in Chicago, Illinois, during World War I.

LOC Contributor Names

[United States] : U.S. Army Signal Corps

LOC Created/Published

[United States] : U.S. Army Signal Corps, [between 1914 and 1918]

LOC Standardized Date

1914

LOC Subject Headings

Women--Employment--Illinois--Chicago--1910-1920
- Ordnance industry--Illinois--Chicago--1910-1920
- Arms & armament--Illinois--Chicago--1910-1920
- War work--Illinois--Chicago--1910-1920
- World War, 1914-1918--Women--Illinois--Chicago
- World War, 1914-1918--Equipment & supplies--Illinois--Chicago
- World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Illinois--Chicago

LOC Notes

Title from item.
- Inscribed on lower left corner of photo, after the Signal Corps emblem: 30252.

EEC Creators

United States Army

EEC Source Year

1914

EEC Format

Image

EEC Type of Source

Photograph

EEC Theme Topic

Citizenship - Civic Participation