Baltimore & Ohio Magazine Annual Women's Number -- Vol. XXVI, No. 5, May 1940

Baltimore, Maryland: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, 1940. Good to very good. Dust soiling, wear, a couple short tears.. The May 1940 issue of the Baltimore & Ohio Magazine Annual Women's Number, published by The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, celebrating 85 years of "Women in B&O Service" (p.5). The women's issue of the Magazine was published for the women who worked for the B and O Railroad Company, with the aim of relating company news and bolstering morale and efficiency. Content includes: a financial report (inside upper cover); an explanation of the upper cover illustration (p.3); "Letter to Susan", an ode to early women workers in the company; histories of various first ladies of states including Maryland, New Jersey, Indiana, and more (beginning p.8); poetry (p.30); a feature on actress Fanny Kemble (p.36); a small section of content for children (p.38); an article on stuttering in children (p.43); an article about "Women in War-- and Peace" (p.44); an article on how the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture helps women (p.53); a brief word on the prevalence of cancer (p. 88); and much more. Includes photo illustrations and line drawings throughout related to the content. From the p.5 "Letter to Susan": "Years of research have not yet revealed to us the names of any other women, of any railroad, who entered service even as early as 1855. Railroading was a man's world then, Susan--and it still is. Yet there is in its service ... a place for women. Thousands of us in these eighty-five years have found niches which we can fill satisfactorily and happily--not because we are able to do a 'man's work', but just because we are women" (p.5). Single vol. (11" by 8"), pp. 88, illus., in original illus. wrps. Features a clever cover design, showing an 1890's woman reclining on an iron railcar chair, with the outline of the chair doubling as a map of the railroad's route map including stops at Kansas City, Jefferson City, St. Louis, Alton, Peoria, Joliet, Chicago, and Springfield.