Buffalo, New York. Two "hookers" load a crane from a gondola car in the Republic Steel yard
- Date
- 1943-05
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 795 × 1,024 pixels
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