Factory workers inserting wooden screw plugs into hand grenade bodies at Gorham Manufacturing Company in Providence, RI. This image showcases the role of women in munitions production during World War One. The photograph was taken by Grost in 1919 and passed by the censor on January 15, 1919.

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