Title

Women making bullets, May 1915. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Women making bullets, May 1915. A Union Jack hangs from each machine. A pile of bullets can be seen at the feet of the woman at the front of the photograph. The camaraderie and high wages of between £3 and £5 a week helped make the very long hours in the munitions industry more tolerable. For those women who had been domestic servants before the war, earning £18 a year, the attractions of munitions work were obvious. The film industry made hundreds of short films extolling the hard work of women like these and encouraging others 'to do their bit' for the war effort.
Museum of London

Date

1915

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Museum of London

Reference

HRM19A84_429

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,8Mb (1,9Mb) / 16,8in x 12,4in / 5046 x 3730 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings female women woman people male man men flag flags industry guy clothes weapon weapons bullet bullets factory dress war century banner Union Jack first world war lady concept ammunition B&W MONOCHROME standard warfare Union flag Pinafore World War I WWI black & white black and white B W weaponry World War One 1910s 20th century Museum of London 1st World War munition worker munitions factory munitions industry war effort women's war work WW1 photograph Unknown photograph