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- Collection: Firearm Manufacturing in Connecticut during the Great War
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Colt Armory in Hartford, CT
A view of the Colt Armory building in Hartford, Connecticut in 1906
Winchester Repeating Arms Building-New Haven, CT
Photograph of the Winchester Repeating Firearms building in New Haven, Connecticut in the late 1910s to early 1920s. The poster for the Women's Suffrage Movement in the window indicates the likely timeframe.
Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Assembly Line
Assembly line workers craft Winchester rifles during the Great War
Billings and Spencer- Hartford, CT
Outside rendition of Billings and Spencer armory in Hartford, Connecticut near the time of the Great War
The Minute Women of Bridgeport
Promotion for women to work at ammunition and firearm factories during World War I
Bridgeport Women Earn Eight Hour Work Day
Newspaper article noting the change to an eight hour work day for women in Bridgeport, Connecticut
Munitions Worker Bridgeport, CT
Woman making ammunition in Bridgeport, CT for Winchester model rifles during the Great War era
Strikers push for eight hour work day in Bridgeport munition factories
Workers strike for an eight hour work day, ultimately succeeding in their protests.