Ruby Lois Robbins, thirty-one, employed as a car washer in a garage, earning fifty-five cents per hour. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She formerly worked in a cigar store in Tuskegee, Alabama
- Date
- 1943
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- FSA/OWI
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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- 783 × 1,024 pixels
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