The Washington Motor Coach System was a bus line formed in 1925 by combining the certificates of a number of smaller companies. In 1933, the company began placing young women, called conductorettes, on the buses to assist the drivers. The conductorettes took tickets, made out trip reports and did other necessary bookkeeping. Along the route they made passengers comfortable, answered questions and pointed out sites of interest. Conductorettes worked on Washington Motor Coach buses until 1943. The company was taken over by Greyhound Lines in 1947.

Identifications provided with photo: Front row: Sally Eliuck, Vera Demarest DeChenne, Edith McReynolds, Patsy Gaynor, Edna Sepp. Second row: Roxie Ralph, Adeline Burke, Isabel Corfield, Ellen Hayes, Olive Clark. Third row: Berneyl Snyder Kelly, Lucille Hughes, Beth Bush, Patricia Gorman Stookey, Helen Walsh Ryan. Back row: Joanne Snyder, Grace Johnson Bryan, Naomi Blackwell, Jo Smith George.

Caption information source: Notes written by Ernest Feller, collection donor.