New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorthy Bell, Irish-German descent, twenty-seven years old, mother of two children, employed at the American Railway Express Company, sorting packages, weighing them, etc., earns seventy-nine and one-half cents per hour Creator(s): Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006, photographer
Cropped from the high resolution TIFF on the website. New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorthy Bell, Irish-German descent, twenty-seven years old, mother of two children, employed at the American Railway Express Company, sorting packages, weighing them, etc., earns seventy-nine and one-half cents per hour About This Item Obtaining Copies Access to Original
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"New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorthy Bell, Irish-German descent, twenty-seven years old, mother of two children, employed at the American Railway Express Company, sorting packages, weighing them, etc., earns seventy-nine and one-half cents per hour Creator(s): Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006, photographer" (1943-06). OWI. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Railway_Express_Agency_lady_8d31602a.tifNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 124180.
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