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Women workers clean a fast freight locomotive with rags in the roundhouse

Hierarchical level:

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Date:

Jan. 1943

Reference:

RG53

Item no. (creator):

WRM 2665

Type of material:

Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3194192

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National Film Board of Canada fonds

Photographs and posters from the Wartime Information Board classification system

Photographs and posters from the Wartime Information Board classification system

Women workers clean a fast freight locomotive with rags in the roundhouse
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

Jan. 1943

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Place:

Edmonton, Alta.,

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 photograph ; image 7 3/8 x 7 3/8 in: on card 10 x 8 in.
Negative Film B/W - cellulose nitrate

Language of material:

English
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Photographer: Unknown

Photographer: Morant, Nicholas, 1910-1999
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General note:

Cleaning a machine of this scale gives a different perspective on the war effort. This train was one of the last gigantic steam locomotives in operation
prior to dieselation.
Described by the RECON project.

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: On the Job. Curator: Eleanor Brown; National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2000.06.05 - 2001.01.07

Signatures and inscriptions note:

"RAIL TRANSPORTATION. Women replaced men in many of the roundhouse jobs during World War II. Here, two of them clean a fast freight locomotive."

Series added entry:

WRM, Industrial Mechanical Space / Espace industriel/mécanique
Subject heading:

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Edmonton (Alta.)

Transportation - Land - Railway
Source:

Government

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RG53

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1971-271 NPC
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]
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Copy negative [1971-271 NPC] C-079525

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Nicholas Morant / National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada / C-079525
Restrictions on use: Nil
Copyright: Expired

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