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• In the roundhouse at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a helper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. She is learning to operate the turntable. Her husband works for a structural steel company (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Irene Bracker, mother of two children, employed at the roundhouse as a wiper, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Workers at the roundhouse of the C & NW RR Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill, C&NWRR. William London has been a railroad worker 25 years - now working at the roundhouse at the Proviso yards (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three children, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• James Lynch, a roundhouse worker, C & NW RR [Proviso yard] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's Proviso yard (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Chicago and North Western R.R., Mrs. Thelma Cuvage, working in the sand house at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. Her job is to see that sand is sifted and cleaned for use in the locomotives. Mrs. Cuvage's husband works as a guard at the Savannah (Ill.) Ord

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Elibia Siematter, employed as a sweeper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• A worker in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR., Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• A Chicago and Northwestern railroad roundhouse, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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