Woman Converts Basement to Workshop for War Work

Woman Tin Plates Needles for Baxter Laboratories

Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she lives, Glenview, Ill. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide a college education for her young nephew. October 1942.

Photo size: 3000 × 2362
Photo source: Library of Congress
Usage: Public Domain




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