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<\/a>Employee of the New Britain Machine Company during World War II<\/p><\/div>\n
\u00a0Several months ago I worked with Laura Blum, a student at E.O. Smith High School in Mansfield, Connecticut, who needed photographs from the Connecticut Business History Collections for a project she was working on for the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.\u00a0 Laura was selected,\u00a0with fifty other high school students in every state in the country and the District of Columbia, to provide images of how their states contributed to the\u00a0challenges of World War II on the homefront.\u00a0 Laura chose six photographs from our collections, all depicting Connecticut workers and the efforts they made on behalf of the war effort, and wrote an introduction.<\/p>\n
The photographs that Laura chose are available in the Connecticut window of the Salute to Freedom website of the National World War II Museum, at http:\/\/salutetofreedom.org\/<\/a>.\u00a0 We are happy that Laura used photographs from our collection for this national-oriented project and very impressed with the good work she did in highlighting and describing the photographs.<\/p>\n The museum blogged about the exhibit on December 31, 2012, available here: http:\/\/www.nww2m.com\/2012\/12\/student-scholars-honor-local-contributions-to-wwii\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0Several months ago I worked with Laura Blum, a student at E.O. Smith High School in Mansfield, Connecticut, who needed photographs from the Connecticut Business History Collections for a project she was working on for the National World War … Continue reading