SUMMARY
Numerous women sit in rows at machines where they appear to be winding some type of wire and tooling it onto machines. Two young men push spools of this wire down the aisle. Supervisors, ma...
SUMMARY Numerous women sit in rows at machines where they appear to be winding some type of wire and tooling it onto machines. Two young men push spools of this wire down the aisle. Supervisors, male and female, walk down the aisle and observe the women's work, stopping for a while at one woman's station.
OTHER TITLES Copyright title: Girls winding armatures (Westinghouse works)
Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 6 [MI]: Girls winding armature
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1904.
NOTES Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 28Apr1904; H45003.
Original main title lacking.
Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.
Filmed April 19, 1904, at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Received: 4/28/04; paper pos; copyright deposit; Paper Print Collection.
SUBJECTS Armatures--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh. Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. Factories--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh. Women electric industry workers--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh. Manufactures--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh. Manufacturing processes--Pennsylvania--East Pittsburgh. Silent films. Actuality--Short. Industrial--Short.
RELATED NAMES Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera. American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
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