This black and white photograph shows Santa Fe courier nurse Lois McCarthy reading to from left to right, Edward Schaefer of Guilford, Connecticut, and John Godsmark of New Hyde Park, New York. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company assigned registered nurses, known as couriers, to their passenger trains from the 1930s to the 1960s to attend to the medical needs of passengers.
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