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
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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