Women employees, Portland Company, 1917
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Maine Historical Society
Women workers also aided the war effort.
At the Portland Company, women helped to manufacture the 108-millimeter brass howitzer shells used in the war. These women are posing in front of the shipping and receiving doors at the Portland Company in 1917.
Women worked in a variety of other wartime industries in Maine and elsewhere.
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