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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

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