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Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Betty Bruning, who used to be an operator in a curtain factory, grinds a taper on a cartridge drawing punch in the Passaic, New Jersey shop of the Howe Machinery Company. This concern is training a number of young women for war production jobs
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Credit lineSubcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Betty Bruning, who used to be an operator in a curtain factory, grinds a taper on a cartridge drawing punch in the Passaic, New Jersey shop of the Howe Mach. 1942-01-01. United States. Office Of War Information, Liberman, Howard. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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