Blue Collar Worker Collection (page 3)

Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill, C&NWRR, 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill, C&NWRR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad]. William London has been a railroad worker 25 years - now working at the roundhouse at the Proviso yards

Joseph Klesken washing up after a days work... Proviso yards of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
Joseph Klesken washing up after a days work at the rip tracks at Proviso yards of the C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], Chicago, Ill

John Sabados washing up after a days work... Proviso yard of C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
John Sabados washing up after a days work at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], Chicago, Ill

Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run, between 1941 and 1945. Creator: Howard Hollem
Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run. Photo shows the Willow Run manufacturing plant, run by the Ford Motor Company near Ypsilanti, Michigan

Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, Calif. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, Calif

Women become skilled shop technicians... Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. 1942
Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the school at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif

Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day... Columbia Steel Co
Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day at the big construction operations for a new steel plant which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war

TVA chemical plant, electric furnace loaded with phosphate, vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Working on a "Vengeance"dive bomber, Vultee [Aircraft Inc. ], Nashville, Tennessee, 1943
Working on a " Vengeance" dive bomber, Vultee [Aircraft Inc.], Nashville, Tennessee

A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated... Inglewood, Calif. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif. The mechanism resembles a small cannon

Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc. plant in Calif. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc. plant in Calif

Welders making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co. Chattanooga, Tenn. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Welders making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co. Chattanooga, Tenn

Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], Chicago, Ill

Greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse at Proviso (?) yard, C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse at Proviso (?) yard, C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad s], Chicago, Ill

Washing one of the Santa Fe R.R. 54 hundred horse power diesel freight... Argentine, Kansas, 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
Washing one of the Santa Fe R.R. 54 hundred horse power diesel freight locomotives in the roundhouse, Argentine, Kansas. Argentine yard is at Kansas City, Kansas

Worn tires on locomotive wheels are refaced on this machine in the wheel shop... Chicago, 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Worn tires on locomotive wheels are refaced on this machine in the wheel shop of the Chicago and Northwestern [i.e. North Western] Railroad, Chicago, Ill

Working on the cab of a locomotive brought in for repair at the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Working on the cab of a locomotive brought in for repair at the C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill

Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill
Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], Chicago, Ill

Working on a switch engine at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Working on a switch engine at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], Chicago, Ill

Welder at the C & NW RR locomotive shops, 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Welder at the C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad] locomotive shops, 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill

Working on a locomotive at the 40th Street shop of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Working on a locomotive at the 40th Street shop of the C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], Chicago, Ill

Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive, C & NW RR, 40th Street locomotive shops, 1942
Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive at the C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], 40th Street locomotive shops

Section of a locomotive frame, which will be welded to replace a broken... train, Chicago, 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Section of a locomotive frame, which will be welded to replace a broken locomotive frame, Chicago, Ill. Workman is indicating what place must be cut. At the 40th Street shop of C&NWRR [i.e

James Lynch, a roundhouse worker, C & NW RR, Proviso yard, 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
James Lynch, a roundhouse worker, C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad][Proviso yard]

Greasing a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR, 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Greasing a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad]

A young worker at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
A young worker at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill

Hammering out a draw bar on the steam drop... Santa Fe R.R. shops, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
Hammering out a draw bar on the steam drop hammer in the blacksmith shop, Santa Fe R.R. shops, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR, 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill

Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switchman demonstrating signal with a "fusee"... 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switchman demonstrating signal with a " fusee" - used at twilight and dawn - when visibility is poor. This signal means " stop." Calumet City, Ill

Daniel Senise throwing a switch while at work in an Indiana Harbor Belt Line railroad yard, 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
Daniel Senise throwing a switch while at work in an Indiana Harbor Belt Line railroad yard

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