Workers at the Twin Cities Ordnance Plant

Workers at the Twin Cities Ordnance Plant

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Workers at the Twin Cities Ordnance Plant pack .50 caliber machine-gun ammunition into cartridge boxes during World War II. At peak production in 1943, the plant employed 26,000 people, of which 60 percent were women. Photograph by the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company.

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Hennepin County Library

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