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Women training in wartime class at Rainier branch of Edison Technical School, Seattle, 1943

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The Edison Technical School provided a broad range of practical training in full and part-time classes. During World War II, women trained in production related work, such as in this photo taken at the Building Trades Unit located in the old Rainier School at 23rd South and King Street.

Note from MOHAI records: Rainier School opened three years after its closure in 1940 as the Building Trades Unit of the Edison Technical School.
Handwritten on negative: Boeing training classes, Rainier School.
Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle - schools - Rainier (Boeing training classes).
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): April 3, 1943.
ID Number: PI25831
Date: 1943
Physical Description: 1 safety film negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.
Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, PI25831
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