Female Welders in the USA
The Most Iconic Photographs of Welding in the USA during World War II
Gladys Theus, one of the fastest and most efficient welders at the Kaiser Company Permanente Metals Corporation
National Archives, NAID 196355
Honorary keel layers for USS CROWLEY (DE 303), Alyce R. Sawyers and Juanito Doyvolt. US Navy Yard, Mare Island, California
National Archives, NAID 296888
Eastine Cowner was a scaler during the construction of the Liberty ships
E. F. Joseph, LOC, fsa.8d18718
A female welder at the Richmond Shipyards, Richmond, California, in 1943
Line up of some of women welders including the women's welding champion of Ingalls. Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Mississippi, 1943
Spencer Beebe, NARA 086-WWT-85-35
A woman welder at the Inglewood, California plant of North American Aviation works on a sub-assembly for one of the huge tanks that go into B-25 bombers
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, NAID 196382
Factory workers in Washington State, 1945
Welders Alivia Scott, Hattie Carpenter and Flossie Burtos await to weld their first piece of steel on the Liberty Ship SS George Washington Carver
California shipyard workers after eight hours of work in a Richmond, California shipyard on the ferry trip back to San Francisco
Tin-hatted California shipyard workers on the 45 min ferry ride between San Francisco and the Richmond Shipbuilding Company yards
Spot welding parts for the nacelle of an aircraft engine. These women worked in the largest one-story building in the works, the giant bomber plant at the Ford plant in Willow Run, Michigan., Willow Run, July 1942