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Women in the War Effort

Women in the War Effort
During World War II, women throughout the United States enlisted in the war effort. Many took manufacturing jobs once held by their husbands. These women worked as welders in the Landers, Frary and Clark plant in Connecticut when Gordon Parks photographed them in 1943.
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Connecticut; Parks, Gordon, Sr.
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