- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Women and Wartime Employment
- Publisher:
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, LC-USF34-046518-D
- Date of Original:
- 1941
- Subject:
- Textile workers--Georgia--Greene County
Women textile workers--Georgia--Greene County
Textile factories--Georgia--Greene County
Textile industry--Georgia--Greene County
Factories--Georgia--Greene County
Women--Georgia--Greene County
Textile industry--Employees - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Greene County, 33.57878, -83.16666
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers during World War II, often working in traditionally male-dominated fields. Here, women at the Union Point Manufacturing Company in Greene County are producing textiles in 1941.
Image of women at the Union Point Manufacturing Company in Greene County, Georgia producing textiles in 1941. Five women work on a line producing hosiery. Unfinished pieces sit before them. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/world-war-ii-in-georgia/m-10378/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/world-war-ii-georgia
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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