File:WNY Laboratory workers May 1862 Martha and AnnSophia Pumphrey.jpg

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English: Washington Navy Yard payroll for May 1862 with the laboratory workers (seamstresses) who sewed canvass bags for gunpowder and flags for naval ships. The Civil War was the first time the navy yards hired women full time in any number
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Source National Archives and Records Administration Washington DC
Author US Navy May 1862

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