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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 ...
The stories of the nationally-famous Harvey Girl workers, World War II poster subject Rosie the Riveter, and various artists and authors are told in the exhibit.
In the late 1800s it wasn't just young men who heeded the call to go West - so did thousands of young women, recruited as waitresses for the eating establishments ...
The presentation The Harvey Girls: Women’s Roles in Railroads, Kansas and U.S. History will take place 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, March 22 at the Topeka & Shawnee Co. Public Library.
Harvey Girls get a new name: ... Flag Shakes takes on two of the Bard's most famous plays in their summer series under the stars at the Lowell Observatory campus.