Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. The caboose is the conductor's second home. He always uses the same one and many conductors cook and sleep there while waiting for trains to take back from division points.
- 1943
"This is the shucking room in a big Baltimore, MD oyster house. Shucking consists merely of removing the shells. This is done by a stroke of a hammer or an oyster knife. This breaks the end of the shell and the two parts are pried apart. The shells drop in heaps on the floor and the oysters, are put into pails or vats. Most of this work, as you see, is done by women. The shucked oysters then go to the packing room. In the packing room the oysters may be put into large cans for shipping, or they may be put into smaller cans and sealed.”
c. early 1900s
WW2 veterans of McMinn County, TN led one of the only successful insurrections in American history, known as the Battle of Athens, storming the town’s police station and disbanding the local government after years of corruption, police brutality, and voter discrimination. (1946)
