Railroad Wiper at Roundhouse, Iowa Ceramics but he would have been

but he would have been the first to tell you that there’s a fine line between merry and macabre

With Kentucky-flavored language and subject matter

But most of these tales guide us through the recent past of the uncommonly rich folk heritage of West Virginia

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Railroad Wiper at Roundhouse, Iowa Ceramics but he would have beenC. & N. W. R. R., wiper worker at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Dorothy Lucke is photographed by Jack Delano in April of 1943 on 4x5 color transparency film for the FSA. Wipers, railroad workers that cleaned large steam engines of the day, were jobs usually held by men but during WWII women go the chance to do jobs traditionally held by men.