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Conversion. Safety razor plant. In a New England plant manufacturing safety razors, honed head blade clips for razors. Normally her full-time job, Estelle now spends much of her time grinding V-blocks on these same machines, which are rapidly being converted to war production work under a subcontrac
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Credit lineConversion. Safety razor plant. In a New England plant manufacturing safety razors, honed head blade clips for razors. Normally her full-time job, Estelle now spends much of her time grinding V-blocks. 1942-01-01. Hollem, Howard R., United States. Office Of War Information. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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