Category: LOAN
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Newspaper: The New York Times
Title: APTITUDE TESTS PRECEDE WAR WORK FOR WOMEN OF CANADA. Women at work on problems that are compulsory for all who seek employment in defense plants in Quebec Province. Girl at right is fitting squares into place in a form similar to a jig-saw puzzle. At the left an applicant draws a picture while viewing her task in a mirror.
Date: 1942-03
Medium: gelatin silver print with retouching and editing marks
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: NYT.2016.0076.0002

Inscriptions:
Recto, handwritten: 756; [printed in gsp]: WRM 1364, [crop marks]; Verso, stamped: 1942 MAR 27 19 58; handwritten: 10-749-L4 [circled]; stamped: 1942 MAR 27 PM7 57; stamped: 1942 MAR 27 PM7 40; handwritten: Food Page [circled]; stamped and circled: MAR 28 1942 / [illeg.]; handwritten: Canadian Women; stamped [in box]: PHOTOGRAPH FROM / OFFICE OF / DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION / OTTAWA.; stamped and handwritten: 3 COLS / WANTED: / FIRST / CITY [struck through] / LATE [struck through]; stamped and handwritten: [illeg.] DAILY / 3 COLS. 6 x 4 1//4; printed [newsprint adhered with paste]; APTITUDE TESTS PRECEDE WAR WORK FOR WOMEN OF CANADA / Women at work on problems that are compulsory for all who seek employment in defense plants in / Quebec Province. Girl at right is fitting squares into place in a form similar to a jig-saw puzzle. At the left / an applicant draws a picture while viewing her task in a mirror. The New York Times, passed by Canadian censor. / The day-dreamer may become an / important cog in the war produc- / [cropped] / more than 300 men and women / daily, correlate function and anti- / [cropped] / of a jig-saw puzzle, segregate card / on which isolated letters are typed / [cropped]; stamped: PHOTOGRAPH FROM / OFFICE OF / DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION / OTTAWA.

Credit Line: The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection