Anonymous mechanic girls - UPDATE: not anymore!

"Ace, by the way, is aptly named"
I couldn't have said that better!
Thank you very much.

Stephens was on my short-list of overhead valve cars of the early '20s, so I'm pleased to know I was on the right track. I just couldn't find sufficient good photos of the really obscure makes to draw conclusions. It looks to me like the car's front axle has been knocked askew. As for the poster, I think it's a lubrication chart. Ace, by the way, is aptly named.

The car is a 1919 - 1922 Stephens Salient Six produced by the Stephens Motor Works in Moline, Illinois by the Moline Plow Company. We know this is an earlier Stephens because the design of the hub cap changed for 1923. A controlling interest in Stephens was purchased by John North Willys in 1919, but the company was kept separate from Willys-Overland. Stephens were produced from 1917 - 1924, and less than 20,000 came off of their assembly line. Moline Plow continued to produce farm tractors and implements though until 1929 when it merged with another company to become Minneapolis-Moline.

The photo shows women in a mechanics course at Central High School in Washington, D.C. Under the car is Miss Grace Wagner who graduated from the school in 1930. She later graduated from Wilson's Teachers College, earned her Masters Degree in Education from George Washington University, and then taught elementary school at Alexander R. Shepard Elementary School in Washington. In 1947 she married R. R. McCathran. He died in 1995, and she died in 2002. You can see another photo of Ms. Wagner here: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/npcc.16489/

Miss Evelyn Harrison is another of the ladies shown. She graduated from Central in 1928, and went on to become the first woman to earn a civil engineering degree from the University of Maryland. She went on to a career with the United States federal government eventually becoming the Deputy Director of the Civil Service Commission in 1955. Later she was presented a Federal Woman's Award by U.S. President John F. Kennedy. When she retired in 1971 she was the highest ranking woman at the U.S. Civil Service Commission.

Unfortunately I could not find many details for the other two ladies. Miss Grace Hurd had a mother who was an osteopathic physician. Miss Corrina Digiulian lived to the age of 97 and died in Gaithersburg, Maryland in 2008.

The cars look to be American - detachable rims and wooden spokes on the one being worked on. The hair styles are typical '20s flapper fashion - so the date seems appropriate. While the girls' overalls look to be pristine (typical for a posed shot), the same cannot be said formthe car!

Looks of the girls are not prepared at the first day of there education class.
They give the girls brand new oversized overalls, but forget additional shoes!
Look what kind of shoes they are wearing. Not for mechanics!