Public domain
Refrigerators to bombers. The last electric refrigerator that rolled from the assembly lines of a large eastern manufacturer, meant a new job for Gertie Saurborn. Formerly, her work was silver-soldering tubes on float cases for refrigerators destined for American homes. Now transferred to war work,
From the collection of Library of Congress. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Credit lineRefrigerators to bombers. The last electric refrigerator that rolled from the assembly lines of a large eastern manufacturer, meant a new job for Gertie Saurborn. Formerly, her work was silver-solderi. 1942-01-01. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
Similar works
Refrigerators to bombers. Before conversion of her employer's plant to war production, Gertie Saurborn worked silver-soldering tubes on float cases for refrigerators. She still works for the same employer but now she tests regulators which her firm makes for use in Army and Navy bombers
Bottling eight cubic centimeter quantities of typhus vaccine. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Hamilton, Montana
Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Compacts out, war production in. One of the last batches of luxury items is put through a Kentucky watch case plant now engaged in the production of gun parts, fuse baffles, compass cases and other essentials for our fighters. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louis
Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. Cartoning ampoules automatically
Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A machine paints the exterior and interior of each 37mm M-54 high explosive shell made at a former cash register factory now engaged in war production. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio
T.R. Shipp, Atwater Kent Factory