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West Chicago, Illinois. At a meeting of the Albert Keep Lodge Number 364 of the International Brotherhood of Railway Trainman. Northwestern Railroad local. The lodge has been organized since 1890 and has 150 members on record. Four hundred dollars were taken out of the lodge treasury for the purchase of war bonds

West Chicago, Illinois. At a meeting of the Albert Keep Lodge Number 3...

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Chicago, Illinois. Trainman on the Pullman train at the Union Station

Chicago, Illinois. Trainman on the Pullman train at the Union Station

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Checks railroad signal glasses for government. Washington, D.C., Sept. 29. Red should be read and orange should be orange and never should the colors in railroad signal glasses be so near alike as to confuse a trainman. The Government, through Mrs. Geraldine W. Haupt, Color Expert of the National Bureau of Standards, tests all railroad signal glasses to determine if the color value is true and also to see that they conform to certain specifications. 9/29/37

Checks railroad signal glasses for government. Washington, D.C., Sept....

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Chicago, Illinois. Engineer and trainman chatting on a train platform at the Union Station

Chicago, Illinois. Engineer and trainman chatting on a train platform ...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Trainman with a cigar

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Trainman with a ci...

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An American soldier trainman has the insignia of the United States Army on the visor of his cap. He is somewhere in Iran

An American soldier trainman has the insignia of the United States Arm...

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Gets White House breakfast. Braving a biting wind, Charles P. Ruby was at the White House early in the morning on New Year's Day, prepared to be the first to shake hands with President Hoover. He achieved an honor even greater. When the president learned that Ruby was shivering outside he had his brought in, introduced him to Interior Secretary Wilbur and Justice Stone, there for a game of medicine ball with the President, then invited him to a White House breakfast. Ruby is trainman at the Washington Terminal. 1/1/31

Gets White House breakfast. Braving a biting wind, Charles P. Ruby was...

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Saint Augustine, Florida. Trainman signalling from a "Jim Crow" coach

Saint Augustine, Florida. Trainman signalling from a "Jim Crow" coach

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Plan for taking of unemployment [...] Washington, D.C., Sept. 27. Government [...]labor leaders met at the White House today [...] John D. Biggers, Unemployment Census Administrator to formulate plans for compiling the first unemployment census in the United States. In the photograph, left to right (seated): A.F. Whitney, Pres. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainman; Secretary of Labor Perkins; Secretary of Commerce Roper; Administrator John D. Biggers; Secretary of Agriculture Wallace; Stuart A. Rice, Chairman, Central Statistical Board; William L. Austin, Director of the Census. Standing, left to right: John L. Lewis, CIO Head; W. Averill Harriman, Chairman of the Business Advisory Council; Allen Johnstone, Counsel of the Special Senate Committee to Investigate Unemployment Relief; Dorrington Gill, substituting for Harry Hopkins; M.W. Thatcher, Pres. of the Farmer National Cooperative Grain Corp.; George H. Davis, Pres. of U.S. Chamber of Commerce; W. Frank Persons, Director of U.S. Employment Service; Chester M. Gray, Representing the American Farm Bureau Federation; Noel Sargent, Secretary of the National Association of Manufacturers; Fred Breckman, representing the National Grange; T.B. Uttley, Supt. Division Post Office Service; Boris Shif[...], representing William Green; and Arthur Altmeyer [...] Security Board, 9/27/37

Plan for taking of unemployment [...] Washington, D.C., Sept. 27. Gove...

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