Women's Work: A Century of
Maine Experience
Ethel Linscott and
an unidentified co-worker, working in the core room at the
Saco-Lowell Foundry in Biddeford, Maine sometime in 1942 or 1943. "I
worked in what they called the core room. You can imagine the jokes
that come from that! Talk about pounding sand, that's where you
pound sand! The sand was mixed with oil, and you had molds, and you
pounded this sand into the molds. Then you had to take the sides off
the molds very carefully to get the things to come apart without
falling apart. My hands weren't as delicate as they should be, and
this was quite a job." [P 5252] [NA 1532.007]
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