Women in essential services. Women are employed as railroad workers by the Southern Pacific Company in San Francisco. With increasing numbers of men leaving their jobs for the armed forces, women are stepping into new and essential work vital to civilian life Creator(s): Rosener, Ann, photographer R
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- 1943
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"Women in essential services. Women are employed as railroad workers by the Southern Pacific Company in San Francisco. With increasing numbers of men leaving their jobs for the armed forces, women are stepping into new and essential work vital to civilian life Creator(s): Rosener, Ann, photographer R" (1943). FSA/OWI. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_are_employed_as_railroad_workers_by_the_Southern_Pacific_Company_8b08381v.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 127393.
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