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Yep. That was one I was thinking of when i said many were very good. Mary is one of the best surveyors I've worked for.
My guess is that the picture reflects the wartime shortage of men. There was probably some grizzled old pipe smoking party chief just outside the picture frame whimsically wondering just what he got himself into.
+1
True that there aren't a lot of women out there surveying, but every one, and I mean EVERY one I have ever had the pleasure of working with was top notch and kept the rest of the team fully on their game.
> Speculating on an old photo and commenting on it's character is nothing more that a mind exercise. To extrapolate this discussion to the current mind set of the commentators is insulting. I believe the photo to be a gag; this does not have anything to do with my current thoughts on women in the surveying profession.
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> That being said, coming from the wilds of southeast Texas, I still laugh at the thought of any woman chopping line in Houston in August. Just not going to happen, enlighten though we may be.
I bet my machete is bigger than yours 😉
You go girl!!!
(Spoken from a guy that is greatly outnumbered in my household. My wife and girls can works with me step for step)
My wife surveyed with me until a few days before the dr induced labor for our 1st baby. It didn't take her long before she was back out with me. This was in the hot, humid summer in the deep South in very thick woods. She keeps me going now!
Here are some 1917 photos:
[Civil engineer of the Santa Fe Railroad, Miss Ethel Larson, surveying along a railroad track]. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer.
CREATED/PUBLISHED 1917.
SUMMARY Portrait of Miss Ethel Larson, civil engineer and employee of the Santa Fe Railroad, surveying along a railroad track in Chicago, Illinois.
NOTES This photonegative taken by a Chicago Daily News photographer may have been published in the newspaper. Cite as: DN-0069068, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.
[Civil engineer, Sophia Gooms, of the Santa Fe Railroad, surveying along railroad tracks]. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer.
CREATED/PUBLISHED 1917.
SUMMARY
Portrait of Miss Sophia Gooms, civil engineer for the Santa Fe Railroad, surveying along railroad tracks in Chicago, Illinois.
NOTES This photonegative taken by a Chicago Daily News photographer may have been published in the newspaper. Cite as: DN-0068977, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.
[Civil engineers for Santa Fe Railroad, Golden Graves, Esther Larson, Avis Deane, and Ethel Parker surveying on railroad tracks]. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer.
CREATED/PUBLISHED 1917.
SUMMARY
Group portrait of Miss Golden Graves, Miss Esther Larson, Miss Avis Deane, and Miss Ethel Parker, civil engineers for the Santa Fe Railroad, surveying on railroad tracks in Chicago, Illinois.
NOTES This photonegative taken by a Chicago Daily News photographer may have been published in the newspaper. Cite as: DN-0068978, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.
Source: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Type “surveying” into the search field on the upper right hand part of the web page, the attached images are listed as items 4, 5, and 6.
Gene – I wish you could meet some of the gal friends I have out here in Oregon that I used to plant trees, fight fires and survey with. They’d turn your head when they walked into the diner for breakfast in the morning, work you into the ground all day long, drink you under the table that night and haunt your dreams for the rest of your life. No creampuffs need apply out here on the fringe.
Mike Berry, I would enjoy drinking a beer with you. That was almost poetic. 🙂
If you guys think that we cant/don't do hard labor, just try carrying and having a baby. Then you'll really see what we CAN do...for 9 months straight!!! 😉 :love:
