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Women seated at table, inspecting 45 automatic pistol parts, at Colt's Patent Fire Arms Plant, Hartford, Connecticut.

Women participated in Red Cross knitting Bees to make socks and other dress for soldiers and refugees in private homes . The home of Mrs. T.F. Garvan at 226 Farmington Ave., Red Cross Cathedral Branch, Hartford.

Pictured here are female workers on a Colt factory line producing weapons during the Great War era. Due to the length, weight, and shape of the material they are working with, it appears they are manufacturing barrels for the Colt Vickers machine…

Helping the war effort local Red Cross workers rolled surgical dressing

During both World War I and World War II, women were called upon to serve in factories on the homefront, producing weapons and ammunition for the United States armed forces. In nearly all photographs of Colt Firearm Manufacturing's assembly lines…

A female factory worker is making a pistol for soldiers during World War I. She is working in the Colt factory in Hartford, Connecticut.

Portrait of Mary McConnell Borah. Before World War I in the U.S. Women wore luxurious dresses with long layered skirts over corsets accentuating their waists.

Factory workers at Stanley Workers in New Britain, CT train to build war materials for World War 1.

A snapshot of workers standing outside of Winchester