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Women, War and the Home Front

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Women employees, Portland Company, 1917

Women employees, Portland Company, 1917

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Women workers also aided the war effort.

At the Portland Company, women helped to manufacture the 108-millimeter brass howitzer shells used in the war. These women are posing in front of the shipping and receiving doors at the Portland Company in 1917.

Women worked in a variety of other wartime industries in Maine and elsewhere.