While interviewing my ladies for my new book,
"The Girls of Atomic City," I heard countless stories about nylon shortages. Wonderful to come across this Smithsonian piece today.
Time for a coffee break.
Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (Library of Congress)Palmer, Alfred T., photographer.
1 transparency : color.Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.