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Found in the “Way We Worked” National Archives and Records Administration digital exhibition. Photo caption: “Like girls from Mars are these “top women” at U.S. Steel’s Gary, Indiana Works, Their job is to clean up at regular intervals around the tops of twelve blast furnaces. As a safety precaution, the girls wear oxygen masks while they are doing the clean-up job” By an unknown photographer, ca. 1941–45, National Archives, Records of the Women’s Bureau (86-WWT-33-58).
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