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- Back to the Future
- Heckuva remote control!
- Sometimes — Things Go Bump!
- I SEE THE LIGHT
- Union Switch and Signal Company
- Get That Light Out Of My Eyes
- Eggs. Eggs. Eggs. The Egg Man is Here!
- Foreboding caption
- Famous Hollywood faces
- Not just S&P
- re: Those things in the jar
- Up In Smoke
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- A Quink Comment
- If You’re Like Me, Never
- Delivering the News
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- S&P
- 1940 Zenith radio model 6G601
- Quality goes in before the name goes on!
- Snazzy skirt
- Carbon Arc Lamps
- Illuminate us
- I remember it well
- I can't prove it
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Jack Delano
Making the Trains Run: 1942
December 1942. A young worker at the Chicago & North Western 40th Street shops. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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Hulett Unloader: 1943
May 1943. A Hulett unloader at the Pennsylvania Railroad ore docks in Cleveland. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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Fair Maidens: 1941
September 1941. At the state fair in Rutland, Vermont. View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration.
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De Colores: 1941
December 1941 or January 1942. "Child of a Farm Security Administration rural rehabilitation borrower in front of his house in Puerto Rico." 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the FSA. View full size.
Tower B: 1943
May 1943. Melrose Park, Ill. Chicago & North Western towerman R.W. Mayberry of Elmhurst at the Proviso Yard. He operates a set of retarders and switches at the hump. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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- 18626 reads
Greene County: 1941
May 1941. Going to town on a Saturday afternoon in Greene County, Georgia. View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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- 10596 reads
Yellow Sentinel: 1940
December 1940. "Industrial buildings in a Massachusetts town, possibly Brockton." View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
- 5 comments
- 21253 reads
Calumet Park: 1943
January 1943. Indiana Harbor Belt switch engine near Calumet Park stockyards at Calumet City, Ill. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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Serve in Silence: 1942
December 1942. A winter afternoon in the North Proviso yardmaster's office, Chicago & North Western Railroad. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. Click here for a closeup of the poster on the wall.
- 10 comments
- 50897 reads
I Am the Egg Girl: 1940
August 1940. Little girl at the Reitz farm near Falls Creek, Pennsylvania, washing eggs to be sold at Tri-County Farmers Co-op Market at Du Bois. View full size. 3¼ inch safety negative by Jack Delano, Farm Security Administration.
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- 37003 reads
Polar Express: 1942
December 1942. Proviso classification yard of the Chicago & North Western Railroad. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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Student Nurse: 1942
Lydia Monroe of Ringold, Louisiana, is a student nurse at Provident Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Her father is a machinist at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Photo by Jack Delano, March, 1942. View full size.
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This Won’t Hurt a Bit: 1942
A baby is restrained for an X-ray at Provident Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Jack Delano, March, 1942. View full size.
- 14 comments
- 36216 reads
10 Million Bushels: 1943
March 1943. The giant Santa Fe Elevator near Kansas City, demolished in the 1990s, held 10 million bushels of grain. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano, Farm Security Administration/OWI.
A.S. Gerdee: 1943
April 1943. A.S. Gerdee of 3251 Maypole Street, Chicago, a switchman at the Proviso Yard of the Chicago & North Western Railroad. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano, Office of War Information.
- 6 comments
- 19939 reads
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