Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Twins Amy and Mary Rose Lindich, twenty-one, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad as car repairmen helpers, earning seventy-two cents per hour, ca.1940. They reside in Jeanette, Pennsylvania, and carpool with fellow workers.

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