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Women Shop Employees, Balmar Corporation
May 5, 1943
Photograph by John F. Hughes
Hughes Collection
Maryland Historical Society
PP8 294-43
Balmar Corporation was a machine shop located in the Woodberry neighborhood of Baltimore, Md. (3500-3508 Clipper Road). During World War II, the shop was subcontracted to make parts of the first atomic bomb.
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