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Women in industry. Gas mask production. Don't let their youth and good looks deceive you, these two young workers are actually full-fledged government inspectors who are employed in a converted Midwest vacuum cleaner plant to test gas masks. Every one of the hundreds of rubber masks that move along
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Credit lineWomen in industry. Gas mask production. Don't let their youth and good looks deceive you, these two young workers are actually full-fledged government inspectors who are employed in a converted Midwes. 1942-01-01. Rosener, Ann, United States. Office Of War Information. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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