Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

dklimke    says:

Fascinating snapshots from history
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

Flyer31 says:

Interesting. The clothing is actual work clothes for this shot - except the shoes.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

tracy_photo says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called On the Job, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

daaagwood    says:

Is there such a thing as a War Worker Woman fetish? Well there is now, and I've got it...
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

pepsiline    says:

I just love the way they are dressed.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

budderflyman    says:

I have slides from thirty years ago that are not this sharp and also the colors have shifted and faded. I am really impressed with how great these slides are.
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

artland says:

showw, bela produção, parabéns. *******************************************
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

Serena McClain    says:

The composition on this photo is amazing. It looks like it could be from a photoshoot taken this year.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

Digital_Third_Eye    says:

Rosie the Riveter!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

larry&flo    says:

This could be my mother, we lived just a few miles from this plant.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

marcellucray says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called worldlightning, and we'd love to have this added to the group!


..great sphere........
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

lintei341104    says:

Great shot !!!
Beautiful
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

TARIQ / SULEMANI / jeep rally 19,20,21 february    says:

nicely captured

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Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Jai Yung    says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Flickr's Warm lighting, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

The Library of Congress    says:

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Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

JLStrahm - busy w/school    says:

Thanks for sharing this wonderful historic photo.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

www.timuunk.nl [deleted] says:

Great photo.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

cltan47 [deleted] says:

Couldn't see a person's face on left hand side.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Kenyi72 [deleted] says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called US Military, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

God bless USA.


Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Blackbird fly. says:

bonita foto :)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

pol_ka    says:

Great quality, perfect shot.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

artland says:

wonderfullllllllllllll !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

emangrg2009 says:

awesome photos
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Azam Sa'ad says:

well..strobist has really come a long way...sure this is from 1940's ?
looks too good.
:D
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

timpweb    says:

excellent shot.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Purple_Girl91 says:

que buena foto, se ve muy bien, buena toma ;)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

kibishipug says:

Unsoiled shirts, clean jeans, shiny shoes with spotless soles, not a speck of oil, grease or dirt in sight. History records that many women worked during the second world war, quite possibly not these though. However, I do like the photos.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

1hr photo    says:

It's a photo-shoot! If you knew you were getting your photo taken, and possibly seen by thousands of people - you'd want to be seen at your best, wouldn't you...? And the photographer's brief would have been to show the workers and their surroundings in the best possible light, possibly for recruiting purposes.

Too good for the 1940s? Why? You only need to look at the cinematography of the movies of that era to see that those guys knew all there was to know about lighting and framing a scene. There is a modern tendency to assume that the utmost pinnacle of everything is right now, and all that came before must somehow be un-developed and inferior. Not so...
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

greenthumb_38    says:

well said OneHour. Many a photog has tried to recreate the night shots of O. Winston Link with "modern technology", only to fall short of his level of artistry. thanks for sharing. ~ jeff
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

hyakoukoune says:

sensass !!!
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

Alesfra     says:

Really great moment and photo !!!
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Viper likes colours and noize    says:

danger: women could be letal! :)
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

A.j♥ qtr♡ ツ ♥ ظبي الجنوبّ~ says:

niCE piC
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Sonja ! [deleted] says:

great shot !!
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Daniela Martínez says:

great :D
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

JBKC ™ [Expanding My Horizon] says:

very nice!
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

JBKC ™ [Expanding My Horizon] says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called All Cultures Traditions & Heritage, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

melorialabouk says:

awsome :)
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

Crossdouble    says:

this must be fake not even the best cameras back then could have produced as sharp and exact curves and colours like a digital cam with 10 MP can - this one is a new one and there is no doubt about it.

and since I am a technician and really do know about all this stuff better shut up and just admit that either the government has faked you or you are the faker here.

Ok there is one exception if this was a Hasselblad Camera...but since you have not written which camera it was I take it's a standard cam - and those make my statement above legal and valid.
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

ntmilan says:

I like this color tone!
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

Trichostema    says:

This is not from a 35mm slide but from a large format camera using sheet film. Perhaps the image printed here was from a photo of a print made from it on museum grade paper.
By the way, most women employed in factories were welders and not riveters because welding is a lot easier to learn quickly. Riveters were mostly people who were already riveters before the war; i.e, men.
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

masoud khamis    says:

great shot >>
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

M. Johnston    says:

Crossdouble: Ever heard of a 4x5 or an 8x10 large format camera? The negative those produce is cleaner and sharper than any digital image any camera will ever be able to make, ever. Next time know what your talking about so you don't look like an idiot.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

Crossdouble    says:

well the problem is, 1st: that the idiot is you and not me

and 2nd that I do not go down such a level and believe what some (back then) state influenced and highly controversial archive says.

Even more I am not so dumb and take photos home scan em and upload em.

Seems like this....."museum" has found the right brainsize for their pocket size: XXS
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

M. Johnston    says:

You make no since whatsoever, and if you are referring to the scanned images of my 35mm prints, then you truly are an idiot.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

a pao    says:

INVITATION !!



Please share with us your wonderful photo!!
HIS / HER WORKS
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

Ivan S. Abrams    says:

It's clearly an image from a 4X5 camera--see the index marks at the top right, which are there so that darkroom techs can determine the film type by touch. I'm not certain, but I believe that this is a Kodachrome transparency. The lenses of the day were certainly capable of this sort of sharpness, and the lighting was most likely done with floods; strobes hadn't been invented and flash bulbs wouldn't have been an ideal solution. This photo was more than likely staged, as part of a "photo shoot" intended to generate photographs to encourage public support for the war effort. But it was probably taken on-site, at the Douglas plant in Long beach, California.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

immortalfriendstotheworld says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called free and proud, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

immortalfriendstotheworld says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called piece of heaven, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

Michelle Stevens    says:

good shot
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

anonymous forever says:

fascinating, i really like it
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

pirtskhal says:

nice! like it
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

DarkReporter    says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Retrò, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

pinemikey says:

Interesting. Long before Hard Hats, Steel toe boots and safety eyeware.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

daniel kuhne    says:

absolutely stunning image-quality.
Another proof that LIGHT is / was essential for excellent pics ... even a bunch of years ago ;o)

greets,
Daniel
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

a pao    says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called 他的工作 (HIS / HER WORKS), and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

besu25 says:

I am the administrator and will send you an invitation / Invitación

WOW wow The photo is beautiful

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Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

gourai-israel says:

excellent image
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

​eyebex    says:

they don't make them like they used to
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

yusuf_alioglu says:

Nice...
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Blackbird fly. says:

nice shot :)
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Toan Huynh    says:

good job!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

green_gal    says:

woah. amazing.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

+ arturo monreal says:

me hubiera gustado ue estuvieran sucias las chicas.

more dirty
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

POWER HORES says:

good good
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

rm996s    says:

Awesome Shot!!! You have some great pictures in your photostream!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

NIIM    says:

so cool!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

ohairas    says:

Phenomenal.
Yes people, it's *really* old, I can tell. For one I collect vintage clothing, and many times Hollywood can't even get the look right.

I have an 11x13 color shot of Vivien Leigh in '39. The detail and clarity is simply amazing... Of course I know it's her, and it can no way be a digital.

While these may have been posed photos, many of the women were extremely clean and proper, hair always done in those days. They were thrown into the workfield but still would never think of going out with wrinkled clothes, etc.
Plus, I can see dirt on their fingers.
Excellent, excellent shots!!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

andrew nicholas says:

wow - very nice lighting for 1942
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

LovenStar says:

这里就咱讲中文呀！！！
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Qiao.Wei says:

Great shot!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Cυтє ριηкα [deleted] says:

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Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

princesynch    says:

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larry&flo    says:

According to the news this morning, the old Douglas Aircraft facility is being converted to a movie production studio.
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

>>>"Richy"<<<<    says:

Awesome capture my friend
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

Naresh Anand says:

nice shot.
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

Muhammad Ramzan says:

Very Beautiful photos.
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

kadavoor    says:

Beautiful.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called People love their Work, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

Mr.Sh1n    says:

Excellent work! Well done. Highly regard from Vietnam!
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

© J.R IMAGEN GRÁFICA says:

I would like to add this image to the JR, as it is of very good quality.

Te invito a subir esta foto en:

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TJDax    says:

This is an excellent image. It would be even better without the vulgar tag. IMHO.
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

dehaudi says:

interessant
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

remaininghope says:

Excellent image! I like it. :)
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

Timodima says:

Super! Excellent image!
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Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

dw ork says:

sat sri akal
Thanks for sharing.
O: what a beautiful woman
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

Roberto.mac/// OFF&OFF.    says:

che bella:-))

This is a WONDERFUL photo!
You are invited to share it in the
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Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )