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- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
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Gridlock: 1941
May 1941. "In the convict camp in Greene County, Georgia." A show of hands. Photo by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Not Much to Say Except
"What we have here is a failure to communicate."
Things have certainly changed.
This one made me cry
My split second reaction was that this was a picture from a slave market. The way these men were used probably wasn't any better. I hope their lives improved.
Nightmare
Must have been a nightmare to live through and it's nightmarish to see this: Claustrophobic. Dark. Anonymous hands coming through a wall.
Almost defies caption
I assume these prisoners' day job is working on a road gang or rock pile (making little rocks out of big ones), and just when the temperature hits triple digits, they come "home" to this. These poor souls are definitely not free-range inmates.
It's hard to imagine
the abominable conditions behind that grid.
Too Sad for Words
What a haunting image. I hope these guys lived to see at least some of MLK's dream realized.
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