The women who worked for these restaurants — the Harvey Girls — later became icons, themselves, playing an important role in World War II and helping to transform society's view of women's work.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo- The year is 1876 a young man by the name of Fred Harvey has struck a deal with the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad to open a restaurant at one of the railroad’s depots.

Fred Harvey employed a group of young women who became known as the Harvey Girls ... But some historians estimate that out of the over 100,000 girls who worked in the Harvey House restaurants ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo- You may have seen last month’s coverage of the Harvey Girls, a group of women hired to work at train stations across the West, we followed up with them Friday afternoon in St. L… ...

They were called “Harvey Girls” because they worked in the Harvey House restaurant chain started by Leavenworth entrepreneur Fred Harvey. These women later played an important role in World ...

So ingrained in the culture was Harvey that a 1946 movie was made starring Judy Garland called The Harvey Girls. If you rode the rails back in the day, you knew all about Harvey. If not, keep reading.

New Mexico recognized the legacy of the Harvey Girls, the thousands of women credited with helping transform the West by taking waitressing jobs along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway line… ...

"Upstairs, above the restaurant, is a large dormitory where she will share space with her sister Harvey Girls, two to a room, and be supervised by a house mother.

Last week I talked about how visionary businessman Fred Harvey built a "railroad hospitality empire" in the West, and his company's lasting impact in Arizona. Loose in the foothills: Harvey Girls ...

We tend of think of Rosie the Riveter as the poster girl for the first women in the workplace. But long before the Rosies, there were the Harvey Girls. More than 100,000 young women began heading ...

To help celebrate it 125th anniversary, St. Louis Union Station wants all descendants of those who worked here as "Harvey Girls" to attend a free reception from noon to 2 p.m. at the downtown ...

Reading Jane and Michael Stern’s review of Stephen Fried’s “Appetite for America” (March 28), about the Harvey restaurants, I was surprised at the omission of the most famous evocation of ...