Industry on Parade: Serving Those Who Served, Salvaged Skills

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The Prelinger collection preserves ephemeral films that document everyday life, instruction, commerce, and popular culture. This entry is cataloged as Industry on Parade: Serving Those Who Served, Salvaged Skills.

0563 PA8200 Industry on Parade: Serving Those Who Served, Salvaged Skills. About vocational rehabilitation programs for disabled veterans and workers. It highlights two main examples: a school of watchmaking in Woodside, Long Island, which trained veterans who were at least 70% physically disabled — providing them with free instruction and a full set of tools upon graduation — and a Philadelphia manufacturing plant (Leeds & Northrop) that employed blind and physically disabled workers in precision instrument production.

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