Monday, September 6, 2010

Happy Labor Day!

Here is someone working away in 1942.  From the Library of Congress American Memory Collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II: Color Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1939-1945:    
A rivet is her fighting weapon. Oyida Peaks, daughter of a Navy lieutenant, one of many women taking NYA training to become mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks apprenticeship she will be qualified as a civil service worker in the Assembly and Repair Department.

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