Women Work Shipyards
Photograph
Women Work Shipyards
East Germans – Behind the Wall
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 1/4 × 6 1/8 in. (23.5 × 15.5 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0054
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso BC: (East Germans) 9/61 13) WOMEN WORK SHIPYARDS at Rostock and other docks. \ This shipyard employs over 1500 women, many of whom are sent \ to school by the factory, earning credit towards an engineer's \ diploma. Such privileges are part of the East German regime's \ effort to win support of the working classes. \ Credit: Erich Lessing © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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