Photographs of some of the women working at one of the Clinton, Iowa Roundhouses.
Photographs by Jack Delano for the FSA, taken in April-May 1943.
More on Delano, available here (NYT Lens article), here (NYT obituary), here (Smithsonian Archives of American Art, oral history interview), and here (International Center for Photography).
More on the Clinton roundhouses here (Clinton Herald).
Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room.
Women wipers of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad going out to work on an engine at the roundhouse.
Women wipers of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad going out to work on an engine at the roundhouse.
Chicago & North Western R.R., women wipers employed at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant "H" class locomotives.
Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live steam.
Chicago and North Western R.R., 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.
Chicago & North Western R.R., Elibia Siematter, employed as a sweeper at the roundhouse.
Chicago & North Western R.R., Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse.
Chicago & North Western R.R. Cloe Weaver, employed as a helper at the roundhouse. She is learning to operate the turntable.
Women wipers of the Chicago Northwestern cleaning one of the giant freight locomotives.
Chicago & North Western R.R., women wipers at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant "H' class locomotives.
Women wipers of the Chicago Northwestern cleaning one of the giant freight locomotives.
Chicago & North Western R.R., Irene Bracker, employed at the roundhouse as a wiper.
Chicago & North Western R.R., Elibia Siematter, working as a sweeper at the roundhouse.
Chicago & North Western R.R., Marcella Hart employed as a wiper at the roundhouse.