WWII 4x5 Kodachrome images of home front production
Oct 7, 2015 18:35:12 #
The following text and emails reached my inbox about the home front production during WWII. Coincidentally, I had just returned from the "Rosie the Riveter" museum in Richmond CA, the site of the incredibly prolific Kaiser Ship Yards.
It is set next to the Ford Motor plant that was the final modification and checkpoint for all vehicles from jeeps to tanks being shipped to the Pacific Theater.
This is a stop nor Bay Area visit should miss. It gives us an appreciation of the perspective of what our parents and grandparent generations did. And for those kids whose great-grandparents were involved, here is a way to get them the information.
On Fridays, there are some of the surviving "Betties" welcoming guests.
These photos are excellent and a phenomenal testament to Kodachrome and large format image quality.
Back in the mid '70s someone was working at Hellers Camera in Bethesda MD and had a reference book with a color photo of the battleship Pennsylvania out in the Pacific, around 1944.
The quality of the photo made it clear that it was shot with a large format camera, which is puzzling since most didnt think Kodachrome (the only modern color film of the time in the US ) was available in sheet films.
An old Kodak hand (and WWII vet and radioman in Europe) revealed that they didhave sheet Kodachrome, and that there was only one machine to process the film, located in Rochester.
Note the lack of basic safety equipment. I saw only one pair of safety glasses,
and only a few of the workers were wearing gloves.
Also notice that most of the woman were wearing lip stick and nail polish. WWII
could not have been won without the woman of America stepping up to build the equipment needed to defeat the axis powers.
Some of these images are 70 years old and look as fresh as ever.
If someone had told any of the subjects in these photos that we'd have such a clear look at them in the year 2015.
http://pavel-kosenko.livejournal.com/303194.html?thread=22669914
Thought you'd find these old high quality photos interesting!
It is set next to the Ford Motor plant that was the final modification and checkpoint for all vehicles from jeeps to tanks being shipped to the Pacific Theater.
This is a stop nor Bay Area visit should miss. It gives us an appreciation of the perspective of what our parents and grandparent generations did. And for those kids whose great-grandparents were involved, here is a way to get them the information.
On Fridays, there are some of the surviving "Betties" welcoming guests.
These photos are excellent and a phenomenal testament to Kodachrome and large format image quality.
Back in the mid '70s someone was working at Hellers Camera in Bethesda MD and had a reference book with a color photo of the battleship Pennsylvania out in the Pacific, around 1944.
The quality of the photo made it clear that it was shot with a large format camera, which is puzzling since most didnt think Kodachrome (the only modern color film of the time in the US ) was available in sheet films.
An old Kodak hand (and WWII vet and radioman in Europe) revealed that they didhave sheet Kodachrome, and that there was only one machine to process the film, located in Rochester.
Note the lack of basic safety equipment. I saw only one pair of safety glasses,
and only a few of the workers were wearing gloves.
Also notice that most of the woman were wearing lip stick and nail polish. WWII
could not have been won without the woman of America stepping up to build the equipment needed to defeat the axis powers.
Some of these images are 70 years old and look as fresh as ever.
If someone had told any of the subjects in these photos that we'd have such a clear look at them in the year 2015.
http://pavel-kosenko.livejournal.com/303194.html?thread=22669914
Thought you'd find these old high quality photos interesting!
Oct 7, 2015 19:05:12 #
Photocraig wrote:
WWII could not have been won without the woman of America stepping up to build the equipment needed to defeat the axis powers.
WWII could not have been won without the woman of America stepping up to build the equipment needed to defeat the axis powers.
And yet women are still not considered equal to a man in the work place.
Oct 8, 2015 09:26:10 #
My mother and my mother-in-law were both "Rosie the riveters" during WW II my mother was a pipe braser for both copper and brass pipe, and my mother-in-law was a welder, welding on the main hulls. Both worked in Quincey Naval Ship Building, Quincey Mass. This was owned by Bethlehem Steel Co.
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