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Elizabeth McDevitt, employed as a brakeman, signaling train crew members, U.S. embarkation port, WWII
Lot-3762-7: U.S. Railroads Engage in All-Out War Effort. This American woman, Mrs. Elizabeth McDevitt, the mother of four, is employed as a brakeman on a U.S. railroad at an Atlantic Coast embarkation port. Standing on top of a freight car, she signals the locomotive driver and other train crew members as cars are shifted about the ‘yard’ and made into long trains carrying weapons and food supplies to United Nations battlefronts. Office of War Information Photograph. Courtesy of the. (2017/05/19).
- Date
- 2017
- Photographer / author
- National Museum of the U.S. Navy
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,251 × 2,360 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (US Navy).
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