File:Woman making parachute, Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1942 (26923789771).jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file(2,154 × 2,782 pixels, file size: 2.31 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description Lot 2073-5: Manpower: African-American Navy Yard Workers. In a sea of silk, this woman worker is making parachutes for America’s paratroopers. She is one of many African-Americans at a large eastern shipyard (Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), May 1942. Office of War Information Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/05/12).
Date
Source Lot 2073-5
Author National Museum of the U.S. Navy

Licensing

This image was originally posted to Flickr by Photograph Curator at https://flickr.com/photos/127906254@N06/26923789771 (archive). It was reviewed on 10 July 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

10 July 2018

Public domain
This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

12 May 2016

0.00625 second

22 millimetre

image/jpeg

6d5fa20421aee225c2e47a537ba1d8f10dd940ea

2,419,643 byte

2,782 pixel

2,154 pixel

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current19:30, 10 July 2018Thumbnail for version as of 19:30, 10 July 20182,154 × 2,782 (2.31 MB)Hiàn (alt)Transferred from Flickr via #flickr2commons
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Metadata