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Proviso Yard: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 05/31/2007 - 1:44pm.
Freight cars in the Proviso Yard of the Chicago & North Western Railroad. April or May 1943. View full size. Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
yellow paint
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 08/07/2007 - 3:21pm.
Its the clearance point dude, no wonder derails occur, dyslectic painters in our midst?
[Or maybe dyslexic. - Dave]
Jack Delano
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 06/13/2007 - 8:40am.
Thanks for making this site searchable by photographer; it's the best single collection of Delano's images I can find on the web. Delano's photos are my favorite from the post-1930's period: unsentimental but still saying a lot. You might be interested to know that his son, Pablo Delano, is also a photographer; last I knew (late 1990's) he lived in the Hartford CT area, was teaching at Trinity College there.
More on Jack D
Submitted by abrahamhyatt on Mon, 06/04/2007 - 2:24am.
I found him through the Library of Congress' "American Memory" site. It was the railroad stuff -- the portraits, the train barns, the nighttime rail yard photos -- that got me.
Aside from the interview transcript with him and his wife that's in the Smithsonian archives, I don't know much else about him. What was his stuff like after he moved to Puerto Rico?
Jack Delano
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 05/31/2007 - 11:12pm.
Thanks for all the Jack Delano posts. I stumbled on his work several years ago. You have no idea how happy it makes me to find in Shorpy a fellow appreciator.
- Abraham
[Thanks Abraham! How did you find out about him? Online? He is my favorite of the photographers whose work is on the site. - Dave]
Yellow Rails
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 05/31/2007 - 4:05pm.
The rails that appear to be painted yellow have a fresh layer of rust on the railheads.
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