From April 1, 2014, Shorpy "Fifty-eight and Hour: 1943.
June 1943. "Pitcairn, Pa. Mrs. Bernice Stevens of Braddock, Pa., mother of one child, employed in the engine house of the Pennsylvania Railroad, earns 58 cents per hour. She is cleaning a locomotive with a high pressure nozzle. Her husband is in the Army. "
Photo by Marjory Collins, OWI.
She is a black woman. One comment says that she would be earning $7.87 today.
The Home Front. --GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Monday, January 11, 2016
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