Mrs. Bernice Stevens of Braddock, Pennsylvania, mother of one child, employed in the engine house 8d30408v

Mrs. Bernice Stevens of Braddock, Pennsylvania, mother of one child, employed in the engine house 8d30409v

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Bernice Stevens of Braddock, Pennsylvania, mother of one child, employed in the engine house of the Pennsylvania Railroad, earns fifty-eight cents per hour. She is cleaning a locomotive with a high pressure nozzle. Mrs. Stevens' husband is in the U.S. Army

Washing locomotives is an old business, but it is a new thing to see women doing the work. This crew of women engine cleaners on the Pennsylvania Railroad is taking the place of men called into the armed services Creator(s): Palmer, Alfred T., photographer Date Created/Published: 1943? Medium: 1 neg

Mrs. Mary Ankrom, twenty-eight, mother of six children, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad engine house 8d30153v

Mrs. Hazel Stokum, thirty-seven, mother of six girls, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad 8d30162v

Mrs. Agnes Glunt, mother of a child four years old, employed as a rivet heater in the Pitcairn, Pennsylvania Railroad 8d30161v

Mrs. Katie Sablejack, forty-five, a Hungarian, employed as a blacksmith's helper in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards 8d30167v

Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live steam, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Sievers is the sole support of her mother and has a son-in-law in the Army