Ruby Windell prepares chairs for shipment at Keller Furniture Company

Description:	Ruby Windell prepares chairs for shipment by carefully wrapping the finished products of the Keller Furniture and Manufacturing Company in Corydon, Indiana. Carl Crosier, Jr. can be seen in the background. Windell was one of twenty women who began to work in the factory during World War II. Due to a shortage of available men, the company first employed women in a few positions, and once they proved satisfactory, more women were employed. Their work included operations on stock for furniture, for walk-in refrigerators, and for truck bodies. The factory shift was from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and the business acknowledged that in a weeks time, the work turned out by the twenty women compared favorably with the work done by twenty men on similar machines.
Origin:	1943-03
Created By:	Wallace, Albert (1909-2002)
Source:	http://cdm17251.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17251coll23/id/67
Collection:	People at Work
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Subjects:	furniture workers furniture industry and trade packing for shipment women chairs factories manufacturing

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