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Women Workers at Lunch

Working as Wipers in the Roundhouse, Chicago and Northwest Railway Co.

As part of the Farm Services Administration project to chronicle American life in the Depression into World War II, this photo was taken as a color slide. Photographer was Jack Delano.
Women railway workers, 1943

Women working as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch, Clinton, Iowa, 1943.

Courtesy Library of Congress. From Farm Services Administration.

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