2-717-207 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Women Workers for the War', c1914-1918, (c1920). 'Shell-making in one of the Scottish munition works'. Women manufacturing shells in a factory during the First World War, a dangerous job which involved working long hours, and was hazardous to health because of the toxic chemicals used in the production process. From "The Great World War - A History" Volume IV, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]