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[dracereads]

Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson

Currently working through my backlog of books that I need to blog about. This one I read awhile ago, but it was a heartwarming book that honestly I would pay to see as a feature film.  4/5 Stars!

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[hagleyvault]

Today’s Worker Wednesday post features Pete Petrucci, a welder at the Pusey & Jones Corporation, seen here in April 1944 with a recently constructed tank.

The Pusey and Jones Corporation was a Wilmington, Delaware company founded in 1848 to manufacture and repair general machinery and steam engines. In 1853, it also began shipbuilding, which would become its primary activity. During World War II, Pusey & Jones was engaged in building cargo ships for the U.S. Maritime Commission and hopper dredges for the U.S. Engineer Department. Pusey and Jones built almost five hundred ships in its company lifespan. The company shifted all of its operation to papermaking after World War II. Pusey and Jones closed in 1959.

This photograph is part of the Hagley Library’s Pusey and Jones Corporation photograph collection (Acc.1972.350). To view more photographs from this collection online, click here to visit its page in our Digital Archive.

[bobbysoxrs]

Nurse Hamagochi

[therska]

I did promis to share some drawings, so here is one of my OC Olympe and the Farman of Prince Henri in Brussel during the WWII. The story that inspired me to make this character comes (as always) from the reality, also is the plane and the Prince.

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During World War II, the railroad companies had to devote their resources to the war effort by transporting troops around the country.

After the war ended and the soldiers made it home, the trains came back into play for businessmen, vacationers, families and anyone else who wanted to travel.

Here’s a look back at some of what the railroads were offering to entice passengers back in the late ’40s!