Woman's St. Paul Winter Carnival ensemble

ID: 856
This file appears in: Omaha Railroad Shops
Woman's St. Paul Winter Carnival ensemble

Red wool coat worm by Clara Aufenast Richter, a clerk for the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway.

Date: 1916-17

Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society

This file appears in: Omaha Railroad Shops

By Dave Riehle
Constructed beginning in the late 1800’s, the railroad shops of the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway (the “Omaha”) at Randolph and Toronto Streets employed nearly 1,000 workers for the first half of the 20th century. The West End…