Far from Home: West by Rail With the Harvey Girls Paper Dolls Commentaries an important document drawing more

an important document drawing more much-needed attention to the hidden history of a people both African and American

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Far from Home: West by Rail With the Harvey Girls Paper Dolls Commentaries an important document drawing moreIn the early 1880s when conventional wisdom decreed that working women were socially inferior and morally suspect, an English gentleman brought the first of thousands of young women to the American West to work in restaurants along the Santa Fe Railroad line. Preferring the term Harvey Girl to waitress, Fred Harvey recruited single women between the ages of eighteen and thirty to work ten hour days serving four course meals in under thirty minutes at