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| Title | Kenworth employees at lunch break, 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 Seattle plant manufactured parts for the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 Super Fortress. The factory at Yale and Mercer streets was divided by a fence down the middle of the facility to separate the work being done for Boeing from the civilian trucks.
This 1944 photo shows Kenworth employees taking a lunch break outside the Seattle factory at SOuth Lake Union. Note that the employees are predominantly women; of Kenworth's 507 Seattle employees, 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 | Employees--Washington (State)--Seattle; Transportation 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 | 1983.10.14851.10 |
| 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--1165 |
