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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Women make fiber powder containers for the Stokes 3-inch trench mortar on an assembly line at W.C. Ritchie & Co., Chicago, circa 1916. Library of Congress photo

"Women's Work"

Women make fiber powder containers for the Stokes 3-inch trench mortar on an assembly line at W.C. Ritchie & Co., Chicago, circa 1916. Library of Congress photo

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