Women Working on a Somerville Assembly Line
Date1950s
DimensionsOverall: 25.5 x 20.5 cm
Credit LineGift of Somerville Industries Limited, London, Ontario, 1990
Object number1990.025.039J
Label TextHere, women assemble paper boxes at the Crumlin Plant. The company actively recruited women. One 1947 advertisement read, “GIRLS—here’s work that is clean, light, interesting, pleasant, [and] profitable.” If this drew them, women were told that successful applicants had to be “…alert, intelligent, and dexterous.” Women employed at Somerville also helped manufacture puzzles and games.
NamePhotograph
1939-1945
GORMAN ECKERT AND COMPANY, LIMITED
1879-1894
c. 1900
