View of women railroad workers maintaining a locomotive for the Southern Pacific Company. Printed on back: "Women in essential services. D-9780 Women are employed as railroad workers by the Southern Pacific Company in San Francisco. With increasing numbers of men leaving their jobs for the armed forces, women are stepping into new and essential work vital to civilian life. (February 1943). Please credit: Official OWI photo by Ann Rosener. Watch your credit. No objection to reproducing or publishing this picture provided credit line 'Photo by Office of War Information' appears on the photograph or page. Except that publishers must assume responsibility for all use in commercial advertising and OWI must not appear as the sponsor of any product." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
