Girls winding armatures - From The Library of Congress

In 1904, Westinghouse Companies created a series of short silent movies depicting various enterprises.

In this 2-minute segment, 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

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