View of Stanley Miarka operating a surface grinder at the Marine Engine Division at the Packard Motor Car Company factory in Detroit, Michigan. Label on back: "100% shift to war work for Packard employees practically completed. For 20 years an expert Packard car machinist, Stanley Miarka is now surface grinder in the marine engine division at the Packard factory. Miarka is typical of thousands of Packard employees whose conversion to war work is now practically 100%. Despite its present all-time peak of employment, Packard is daily adding war workers to reach its personnel goal of 25,000 within 1942." Handwritten on back: "Conversion."
Item #: na032653
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
View of Marion Lambert instructing Lucille Kazimer on the correct procedure for punching a time card at the Packard Motor Car Company factory. Label on back: "'This is how you punch your time card,' says Packard Co-ordinator Marion Lambert (right) to Lucille Kazimer (left) one of the women who comprise the vast army of women war workers now helping produce aircraft and marine engines at the Packard plant in Detroit. An important duty of the co-ordinators is to help acquaint new women employees with shop and factory practices." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Item #: na040219
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
View of Herbert Middledorf and unidentified woman worker posing with "American ends with I can. Work to win!" sign. Label on back: "Packard News Service. For release May 16 or later. Machine operator's slogan speeds war engine output. Herbert Middledorf, machine operator producing parts for the Packard PT-boat engine pictured here, noticed the way the word "American" ends and suggested this inspiring slogan to help boost production of war engines. That all the Middledorfs practice what the father praches is proven by the family record. Two sons, William and James, are flying with the Army Air Corps, and the typically American mother (right) is also a Packard war worker. She inspects small parts for Packard-built Rolls-Royce aircraft engines." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Item #: na040308
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
View of Co-ordinator Mahala Milligan counseling screw machine operator Ruby Townsend at the Packard Motor Car Company. Label on back: "Serving as 'roving centers' as they travel the mile long Packard plant twenty-four hours a day, Packard Co-ordinators extend counseling service to women employees on the job. Here Co-ordinator Mahala Milligan (left) tells screw machine operator Ruby Townsend (right) that arrangements have been completed for placing Mrs. Townsend's pre-school age youngster in one of the neighborhood nurseries. Packard's Co-ordinators have assisted hundreds of working mothers solve similar child problems." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Item #: na040286
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
View of Stella Dych and her daughter, Helen, punching a time clock at the Packard Motor Car Company factory. Label on back: "Packard News Service. For release on or after Sunday, Oct. 11. Mother and daughter team as war workers. Detroit, Oct. 11. Women have long been playing a major role in Packard war production, as witness Mrs. Stella Dych and her daughter Helen (above). Mrs. Dych, now a war worker in the department shipping parts for Packard-built Rolls-Royce aircraft engines, will celebrate her 24th year with the company in January. Helen started with Packard 14 years ago as an office elevator operator. Now she heads the company's post office department." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Item #: na040212
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
View of Packard band on deck of steamship City of Detroit III at Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan during 1913 summer meeting of the S.A.E. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., telephone North 1745." Handwritten on back: "The Packard band playing on boat and crowd on upper deck, S.A.E. trip, 1913. Events--Society of Automotive Engineers trip."
Item #: na031350
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
View of musicians from Packard band walking on path at Soo Locks during 1913 summer meeting of the S.A.E. Two men, walking alongside musicians, hold noisemakers; ferry in background. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., telephone North 1745." Handwritten on back: "The Packard band leading the processon at the Soo, S.A.E. trip, 1913. Events--Society of Automotive Engineers trip."
Item #: na031336
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
View of Alvan Macauley and aviator Charles Lindbergh posing with a 9 cylinder Packard airplane at Selfridge Field. Handwritten on back: "Packard aircraft, 9 cyl., diesel, 1930. Alvan Macauley with Charles A. Lindbergh at Selfridge Field (Joy Field)."
Item #: na051720
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
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