Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman, grinder and hooker at the New York Car Wheel Company, powdering her nose. This concern has only recently hired women, and the women's locker room is still unfinished. A plumber can be seen in the background installing a sink. This situation is typical of ma

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman wiping the grease off her hands with paper before eating her lunch which she brought from home in the shop of the New York Car Wheel Company where she is a combination hooker (one who hooks things onto crane chains) and grinder Creator(s): Collins, Marjory

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman eating her lunch brought from home in the shop at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads. This woman is a combination hooker (one who hooks things onto crane chains) and grinder Creator(s): Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, sand slinger operator at rest. Notice sand on her face

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman grinding the end of a locomotive wheel at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of wheels for the railroads Creator(s): Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985, photographer Date Created/Published: 1943 Apr. Medium:; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller

Pratt and Letchwork, makers of all types of casting for ships, tanks, etc. 8d17328v

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Miss Mary DaVanzo, twenty-two, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad steel car shop boiler room as a stationary firemen's helper, earning seventy-two cents per hour. She lives on a farm in nearby Delmont and was formerly a waitress in the Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh

Buffalo, New York. Gladys Chase, thirty-five, was a beautician for thirteen years before becoming a scarfer. Scarfing is the removing of breaks, seams, cracks, lap wells and defects from steel billets by the use of a burning torch and takes six months to learn this process which is called scarfing

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Jennie Wensel, mother of two children employed as a machinist's helper in the Pennsylvania railroad yards, earning seventy-two cents an hour