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| Title | Worker inside Kenworth plant, Seattle, June 15, 1944 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | 1944 |
| Caption | The Kenworth Motor Truck Company got its start building heavy-duty trucks for the timber industry. During World War II, the company participated in many war-related production contracts. Beginning in 1943, Kenworth began making components for the Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" bomber and the B-29 "Super Fortress" at its Seattle plant. Three shifts of workers carried out subassembly work on the planes' nose sections, bomb bay doors, and bulkheads.
This 1944 photo shows a Kenworth employee posing with an airplane fuselage. During World War II, many industries employed women in traditionally male jobs in order to keep up with war-related production. Of Kenworth's 507 Seattle employees at this time, 415 were women. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: Kenworth 6-15-44.
Caption by MOHAI staff with information from Kenworth: The First 75 Years, By Doug Siefkes. |
| Subjects | Laborers--Washington (State)--Seattle; Aircraft industry--Washington (State)--Seattle; Defense industry--Washington (State)--Seattle; War work--Washington (State)--Seattle; World War, 1939-1945; Kenworth Truck Company |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
South Lake Union (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.14851.14 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 safety film negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | 44-1169 |
