JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
What a great name–the Women’s Land Army of England. This was a voluntary service that recruited women to work in jobs (generally in agriculture and forestry and such) that were left unfilled by men going into military service. The “Land Girls” performed a huge variety of work and were a very necessary part of the economic and social structure of the U.K., a Florence the Farmer response to Rosie the Riveter.
Image7x5″, original; photograph, with the original text/caption attached. Very good condition. $150
The image below is of a continent of the Forestry Corps of the Women’s Land Army of England, working at cutting telegraph poles, and commanding some great-looking draft horses. (The horse on the right–ears back–looks big and perhaps a little sensitive.) The horses are pulling a land sled filled with at least five other women and a load of telegraph poles that don’t look particularly long…
I love that the women are wearing ties.
