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A canteen used in World War I and produced by Landers, Frary & Clark

Department Store advertisement for new War Time fashions in Bridgeport newspaper

A snapshot of workers standing outside of Winchester

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

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.

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

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…

Helping the war effort local Red Cross workers rolled surgical dressing

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…