Workers
Manual cradle to harvest grain
Switchboard operator
Settler farmyard
Blacksmith
Washing machine assembly line
Miners with mule-drawn cart
Women railroad wipers
High-pressure canning machine
Public Housing for Miners
Iowa's Meatpacking Industry
Coal Workers Unionize
Women railroad wipers
Women Working for Railroad, 1943
Time Frame: 1943
Women worked on railroads in Iowa during World War II (1941-45). These women worked for the the Chicago and North Western Railroad in Clinton. April 1943.
Photographer: Jack Delano
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection
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