Pitcairn

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, May 1943. Before the "Rust Belt" became the Rust Belt, it looked like this.  Photos by Marjorie Collins.

 Lunch hour in the women's locker at the yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad

  

 Miss Helen Gusmerotti, twenty-nine, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad 

as a car repairmen's helper, earning seventy-two cents per hour

  

 Miss Mary DaVanzo, twenty-two, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad steel car 

shop boiler room as a stationary firemen's helper, earning seventy-two cents an hour

  

 Mrs. Agnes Glunt, mother of a child four years old, employed as a 

rivet heater in the Pitcairn, Pennsylvania Railroad steel car shop

  

 Mrs. Bernice Stevens of Braddock, Pennsylvania, mother of one child, employed 

in the engine house of the Pennsylvania Railroad, earns fifty-eight cents an hour

[notice the difference?]

  

 Twins Amy and Mary Rose Lindich, twenty-one, employed at the Pennsylvania 

Railroad as car repairmen helpers, earning seventy-two cents per hour

  

Mrs. Julia Sabo, thirty-five, mother of three children, employed as a machinist's helper 

in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, earning seventy-two cents an hour