Lunch time

Lunch time

Photograph

Alfred T. Palmer

Maker
American, 1906–1993

Office of War Information

American, 1942–1945

Lunch time

February 1943
Gelatin silver print
19.3 x 24.2 cm.
Purchase with funds from the Charina Foundation
2000.0789.0005
Inscriptions print verso-(mimeographed) "Production: A-31 ('Vengeance') Dive
Bombers" "D-9551 Lunch time. Relaxing by their work-a fuselage section
of Vultee 'Vengeance' dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville Division-
four women workers enjoy a well-earned lunch. The 'Vengeance' (A-31)
was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the R.A.F. and still later by the U.S. Army Air Force. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers."
"Watch Your Credit (underlined) No objection to reproducing or
publishing this picture provided credit line 'Photo From Office of War
Information' appears on the photograph or page, except that ..."
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