cool as ice

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Girls deliver ice. Heavy work that formerly belonged to men only is being done by girls. The ice girls are delivering ice on a route and their work requires brawn as well as the partriotic ambition to help. 09/16/1918

From the Records of the War Department; American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 – 1918

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