YESTERDAY’S NEWSREEL CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE WOMEN IN WWI & WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE STRADIVARIUS 65704

Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. Consider becoming a channel member Drawn from the holdings of the General Newsreel Co., “Yesterday’s Newsreel“ was a pioneering television program which aired on the ZIV Network in the 1950s. Opening titles: Yesterday’s Newsreel. Title: 1917-1920 - Women at Work! (:10-:36). Women working in 1917, during World War I, in a wartime munition plant. A woman controls a crane. A woman controls an elevator. Women do conductor jobs for the railroads since the men are at war. A woman is captain of her own river barge. Men work at desks in an office, some men work there as well. A camp for women near Los Angeles, the women go swimming. Some women get into canoes and use their paddles, the women fall backwards into the water. Women’s suffrage bill goes through Congress and becomes 19th Amendment. Women have won