welding helmet
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content: This Lincoln Electric arc welding helmet was used by Augusta Clawson while working undercover for the United States Office of Education at the Portland, Oregon Swan Island shipyard. Her initials AHC are painted in white on one side of the mask and the employee number, 44651, is painted on the opposite side. Welding helmets were introduced in the 1930s to protect workers from sparks, gases, and the bright light of the electric arc.
label: Description
content: Augusta Clawson worked her entire life in vocational training. She held many positions but is best known for her efforts in helping train (and retain) women workers. Nostalgically remembered as ‘Rosie the Riveter,’ WWII era women war worker’s situations and experiences were more complex than often remembered. During World War II Clawson, as a government employment training specialist, sought to discover why so many women were quitting war production jobs. Through firsthand experiences she made recommendations for changes that would improve training and increase retention. In 1944 she wrote a book titled Shipyard Diary of a Woman Welder based on her two-month experience at the Portland, Oregon Swan Island shipyard.
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
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content: Augusta H. Clawson
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0586.18a
label: accession number
content: 1988.0586
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0586.18a
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Welding helmet