Sepia Saturday 498

Sepia Saturday this week is about women working in factory conditions. 

During the war one of my aunts worked in the munitions factory in Adelaide. Most of the younger men were away at war, so many women stepped in to do the jobs that men would have normally been employed to do.

My photos this week are celebrating the women who worked perhaps as part of the family business, or to support their families, to support themselves as independent women or because they were passionate about their careers.

Working on the family farm, to provide milk for the household.

A school nurse dealing out medicine - perhaps cod liver oil?

My great -aunt Laura in her first teaching position (above) and later as a senior teacher, much admired by her teenage students.

Women working in clothing manufacture businesses.

circa 1910?

circa 1920-30?

circa 1950?

I'm just guessing dates, judging by clothes and hairstyles.


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