The photographs taken by Alfred T. Palmer are essential to our understanding of history, especially these photos of women at work during World War II.
Commissioned by the Office of War Information, which was in charge of encouraging women to contribute to the war effort, one of Palmer’s assignments was to photograph women in a positive light.
Palmer took these color photographs on reversal film, and each shot shows that women have made significant contributions during WWII.
These pictures are both aesthetically pleasing and give us a better understanding of history—and the role women had to play in it.
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[via Exciting Things Only]