• Too bad we couldn't use these guns in the war - mr.anthropology
  • Her expression is so focused, almost rapt. Beautiful. - Gardo
  • turquoise & silver ring? - ptorraca

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)

Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee

1943 Feb.

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
 Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
 Airplane industry
Women--Employment
World War, 1939-1945
Bombers
Drilling
United States--Tennessee--Nashville

Format: Transparencies--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-41 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35371
hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3d02219

Call Number: LC-USW36-295

Comments and faves

  1. opencontext (50 months ago | reply)

    Props to the Library of Congress for opening up access to these great resources! What wonderful images!

  2. Stephanie Warrior Princess (48 months ago | reply)

    Superb picture, especially in color!

    Hitler thought that a woman's place was in the home, so Germany was very slow in mobilizing women for industry and never did to the extent practiced by the Allied countries. He also thought that black people were inferior to whites. Germany was always short on aircraft and all other weapons, munitions, and hardware. Ooops!

  3. striatic (48 months ago | reply)

    This image has been used in the indicommons.org post: Flickring across the Library of Congress


  4. dorsal stream (47 months ago | reply)

    What a great public resource--a model for how information and heritage should be shared.

  5. womenwithoutborders (47 months ago | reply)


    Women Expression!!!
    please add the tag "Women Expression"
    You are ufficially Invited to
    add this photo toWomen Expression (Post 1-Comment 2)

  6. JDAZE Podcast [deleted] (46 months ago | reply)

    great shot!

  7. campbellcierra (44 months ago | reply)

    I love this photo because it shows not only a black woman doing her job, but a woman with a look of perseverance on her face.

  8. semion2 (43 months ago | reply)

    nice

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  9. 29years (43 months ago | reply)

    Beautiful and strong! Such an inspiring photo.

  10. funk_so_bravo (38 months ago | reply)

    WoW Amazing Shot
    Very Well COmposed

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  11. timstimes (36 months ago | reply)

    I love her nail varnish, you can look good and work!
    --
    Seen in your 1930s-40s in Color set. (?)

  12. mikegmdw (35 months ago | reply)

    Some lovely photos here - wish I could see my parents from the same era

  13. Victor M. Samuel (29 months ago | reply)

    Awesome Photo.

  14. This photo was invited and added to the ALL WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL - NO CHILDREN / NO PARTIAL NUDITY -P1C1 group.

  15. Abita il mondo, leggi VpS! (27 months ago | reply)

    Wow!

    From a friend of All Women are Beautiful
    This wonderful image deserves an All Women are Beautiful Award

  16. cuisle west ... away awhile (26 months ago | reply)

    Incredibly, beautifully photographed ... her reflection in the metal is a powerful and symbolic one (all comments to race aside) ... she is a 'woman' finally allowed to work in a 'man's' world.

  17. Dave Caplan (24 months ago | reply)

    I reckon she actually is Rosie the riveter, or at least the inspiration for her.

  18. julianjs24 (24 months ago | reply)

    very interesting the color

  19. MARLOK2011 (20 months ago | reply)

    Love it !!!!!!!!!

  20. tarponrd2002 (15 months ago | reply)

    My Uncle served in the RAAF in this type aircraft. Very cool pic.

  21. ItsBastedo (15 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic :)

  22. This photo was invited and added to the Picturing Public Service group.

  23. baveryhoody (9 months ago | reply)

    Now this is a photograph to share with the next generations to come, a beautiful black woman a "Rosie"1 I think about how life was back then for our people, had to be strong... i know this because there are many of us here today! God bless woman, black, white, and every color under the sun!

  24. byliner-Flickr (9 months ago | reply)

    A real-life Rosie the Riveter ... vivid photos!

  25. Afi Scruggs (5 months ago | reply)

    @comingagain. She's black. I grew up in Nashville. I'm going share this photo with my mother, who could probably tell me the woman's name.

  26. Sorcha333 (2 months ago | reply)

    Wow! Fantastic shot of a real "Rosie the Riveter" in action. Just reminds us how important the female workforce outside the home became in the 40s, and how women helped to win the war!

  27. haroldseifert (6 weeks ago | reply)

    very cool!

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