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Aircraft industry -- United States -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Non-preferred terms: Airplane industry; Aviation industry http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85002753.html

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Signed Group Portrait of African American "Rosie the Riveters"

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2018-00-00-24
Contents of the Collection The collection consists of a single black-and-white group portrait of eight (8) female African American Boeing assembly workers. It is likely the women worked at the Boeing Renton facility, circa 1940s. The women are posed in front of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress and each has signed the photograph with their name: Back row, left to right: Louise Williams, [illegible], Velma Glass Johnson, Florence Thomas; Front row, left to right: Katie Jeffries, Althea Skelton, Ella Mae, Mary...

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