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Sixty per cent. of the workers at the factory where signal cartridges and flares are made are women, forty per cent. are men. Here are two of the wome(...)

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Sixty per cent. of the workers at the factory where signal cartridges and flares are made are women, forty per cent. are men. Here are two of the wome(...)

Date6/14/1941

Names

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Unknown (photographer)

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Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Sixty per cent. of the workers at the factory where signal cartridges and flares are made are women; forty per cent. are men. Here are two of the women assembling parachute flares; some of which weigh up to thirty pounds.

Subject

World War, 1939-1945

Weapons industry

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Photographs

Language

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019309F

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