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I too found the photos very interesting. I was curious as to accurate they are for the overall population. Most seemed to show happy women who were excited to be doing their part but what about those that struggled? None of the picture really showed any kind of real hardship. I would have liked to see a larger variety of photos. -- Kellye Sorber | I too found the photos very interesting. I was curious as to accurate they are for the overall population. Most seemed to show happy women who were excited to be doing their part but what about those that struggled? None of the picture really showed any kind of real hardship. I would have liked to see a larger variety of photos. -- Kellye Sorber | ||
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| + | I liked how the photos strived to capture average people in their daily activies rather than workers in action. I don't think that Bubley was trying persuade any ideal or stereotype but rather was quickly capturing groups of people and showing how different the work force had become during WWII. I thought that the photo of the women on the stairs waiting for the boarding house bathroom did show the hours of work the women had put in and the exhaustion they were facing. -- Meredith Bojarski | ||
== Mary McLeod Bethune on black women and the war effort, 1940 == | == Mary McLeod Bethune on black women and the war effort, 1940 == | ||
