Women and the railroad
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posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 6:20 PM
Monday, March 15, 2010
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Mrs. Lewis Metzler Clement joined her husband at the Summit Camp during the construction.
Native American Shoshone women were construction workers on the Central Pacific Railroad and were found stronger than the men in the back breaking work.
Mrs. Strowbridge, Mrs. Ryan, and the wives of officers commanding troops in the vicinity are depicted in the famous Thomas Hill painting The Last Spike.
The rail car of James Harvey Strobridge used during the construction period had apartments. He and his wife, Hannah Maria Strobridge, lived in one. Mrs. Joseph Graham, a close friend of Mrs. Strobridge and wife of the Contract and Finance Company's Asst. Chief Engineer, lived in another ...
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