Frauenarbeit im Ersten Weltkrieg (1917)

Women wearing uniform caps (labeled "Gas Company") and carrying ladders on their shoulders are walking down a street. One woman places a ladder against a street lamp and climbs up. She is cleaning the lamp's glass. Other women are writing in notebooks. They put on backpacks, and one woman has a backpack (labeled Gas Company) and a ladder on her shoulder. Women without ladders continue to walk along the street. Some women are cleaning the windows of train cars with scrub brushes and buckets. In another scene, a woman in work clothes gets off a locomotive, oils the wheels with an oil can, and then climbs onto the locomotive with a wrench (?) to check the bolts.

Next, there is a large pile of coal, and women are shoveling coal into sacks and weighing them. The women lift the sacks onto a wagon, where a man picks them up. Another scene shows a woman placing a bucket on the street, assembling a ladder, and leaning it against a shop window. She cleans the window and then shoulders the ladder.

In another scene, a woman operates a lever on a pole next to railroad tracks to lower a lamp. She takes the lamp apart and cleans it. After attaching rods to the lamp, she uses the lever to raise it.

The scenes continue with a woman on a bicycle leaving a building labeled "Telephone and Telegraph" and passing the building. More women leave the building. A woman gets out of a car, and another woman gets into an open car and drives away. There are also passing streetcars and women in open trucks.