Margaret worked as a photographers assistant in the last 1930′s in Culver City, California. She became quite good a taking portraits and printing black & white photographs. The portrait studio that she was working for wanted to open a second location in Fresno and Margaret was selected for the assignment. She worked in Fresno until World War 2 when the word went out that he US Navy needed people with photographic skills to work in photo reconnaissance in Washington DC. Margaret joined the Navy and worked in a photo lab at Andrews Air Force Base. Her assignment was to develop, print and arrange black and photos for the intelligence offers to interpret. This was the same methodology used right up through the Cuban Missile Crises in 1962. Margaret was discharged from the Navy in 1945 and was offered a position with Columbia Studios as a photo retouch specialist. She worked there until approximately 1950.
