Woman operating a rivet gun on a Vengeance dive bomber part, Nashville TN, 1943
Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer
Not photoshopped, no AI. Just exactly what a large format camera using film and expert lighting and experience could do! I'm thinking this image is most likely a Kodachrome 4×5 inch transparency.
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This is a great photo, OP. Thanks for posting it.
Terrific!
Shorpy thinks it is a 4×5 Kodachrome too:
https://www.shorpy.com/node/107
Here is the original source at the Library of Congress:
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017878540/
They have a high resolution tiff there available to download.
Here are a few more color transparencies that Palmer took at the factory:
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=color%20Vultee-Nashville
She’s got a drill in her hand though?
She’s drilling pilot holes into a panel on a stand.
It’s a cool photo, but dam has the standard of knowledge dwindled