Two women workers at an industrial site near the Dnipro Hydroelectric dam
Description
- Creator
- Williams, Whiting, 1878-1975, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Types
- Photographs
- Newspaper illustrations
- Description
- Williams shows us two women workers on his escorted tour of a construction site for the new aluminum production plant seen in the background. Both pause to look at Williams, one flashing him a smile. These women are wearing ordinary street clothes, but heavy work boots to protect their feet. The goggles they were issued to protect their eyes are pushed up on to their headscarves. In Soviet iconography, strong, happy women workers were a prominent theme to show progressiveness in gender equality.
As a US consultant on labor management issues in heavy industry, Williams was critical of some of the types and conditions of heavy labor that women in the USSR were allowed to participate in.
The cropping by the photo editor of Answers not only brings us closer to the subjects, but presents a much more orderly setting by removing the disarray of the construction site, a slag heap in the distance, and an electrical tower near one of the buildings. In fact, it is not clear from the illustration version that this is a construction site at all.
For further information on: The situation for Urban Residents and Industrial Workers, 1932-1933, see "Context Note" under Related Features at right.
- Notes
- This photo, taken August, 1933, was used to illustrate “Why Russia is Hungry,” (March 3, 1934, p.3), the second of two articles by Whiting Williams that ran in a London weekly titled Answers.
The original photograph and the published version are both shown here.
See Related Features menu to link to the article. - Inscriptions
- Williams' caption on back of original photograph: “Workers helping to build the aluminium and other plants in Dnieprostroy to use ‘juice’ ready years in advance!”
Caption under photo in Answers: “Helping to build an aluminium plant in Dnieprostroy, where great works of various kinds are under construction. Electric power for them to use has been ready years in advance.”
- Date of Original
- August 1933
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- PD206
- Collection
- Whiting Williams
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Zaporizhia, Ukraine
Latitude: 47.82289 Longitude: 35.19031
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- For original: Williams, Whiting. 1933. “Workers helping to build the aluminium and other plants in Dnieprostroy..." [Container 1, Folder 9 ] PG 89 Whiting Williams Photographs, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH. Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3634117/data
For published version: Williams, Whiting. 1933. “Helping to build an aluminium plant in Dnieprostroy,..." “Why Russia is Hungry,” Answers (weekly). London, March 3, 1934, p.3. Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3634117/data - Location of Original
- [Container 1, Folder 9 ] PG 89 Whiting Williams Photographs, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH.
- Terms of Use
- Reproduction of images is restricted to fair use for personal study or research. Any other use requires a contractual agreement with the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH. Contact the Society directly at:
https://www.wrhs.org/research/library/services/ - Reproduction Notes
- Reproduced by contractual agreement with the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH.
