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NEW MEXICO: RAILROAD, 1943. A view from the Santa Fe Railway near Melrose, New Mexico. Photograph by Jack Delano, 1943

NEW MEXICO: RAILROAD, 1943. A view from the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway near Encino, New Mexico. Photograph by Jack Delano, 1943

NEW MEXICO: RAILROAD, 1943. A Southern Pacific Railroad freight train passing Vaughn, New Mexico. Photograph by Jack Delano, 1943

ILLINOIS: RAILROAD, 1943. The Indiana Harbor Belt line railroad yards in Calumet City, near Chicago, Illinois. Photograph by Jack Delano, 1943

ILLINOIS: RAILROAD, 1942. A train departing from the Chicago and North Western Railway Company yards in Chicago, Illinois. Photograph by Jack Delano, 1943

PUERTO RICO: GIRLS, 1941. Girls from a glee club near Corozal, Puerto Rico. Photograph by Jack Delano, 1941

SEGREGATED ENTRANCE, 1940. Door marked white ladies only on a store in Durham, North Carolina. Photograph by Jack Delano, May 1940

SIDESHOW POSTER, 1941. Poster for Ruth the Acrobat in the sideshow at the Vermont State Fair in Rutland, Vermont. Photograph by Jack Delano, 1941

VERMONT: FAIR, 1941. A man with a bottle of liquor in his back pocket at the World s
VERMONT: FAIR, 1941. A man with a bottle of liquor in his back pocket at the Worlds Fair in Tunbridge, Vermont. Photograph by Jack Delano, 1941

VERMONT: FAIR, 1941. Men and women drinking beer at the Worlds Fair in Tunbridge, Vermont. Photograph by Jack Delano, 1941

CHICAGO: RAILROAD, 1943. Freight cars at the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad in Chicago, Illinois. Photograph by Jack Delano, May 1943

PENNSYLVANIA: SLUM, 1940. A child ironing at home in the slum area of New Brighton, Pennsylvania. Photographed by Jack Delano, 1940

CHICAGO: RAILROAD, 1943. Freight cars of the Illinois Central Railroad in the terminal at South Water Street in Chicago, Illinois. Photograph by Jack Delano, April 1943

NURSE, 1942. Student nurse Lydia Monroe at Provident Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Photograph by Jack Delano, 1942

SQUATTER FAMILY, 1941. Children of a squatter family who are preparing to move out of the Spartanburg Army camp area near Whitestone, South Carolina. Photograph by Jack Delano, March 1941

RAILROAD WORKERS, 1943. Conductor James M. Johnson and brakeman Jack Torbet of Waynoka, Oklahoma having lunch in the caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad line

CALIFORNIA: RAILROAD, 1943. The railroad station in Bagdad, California on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Needles and Barstow, California. Photograph by Jack Delano, March 1943

RAILROAD YARD, 1943. Easternbound train about to leave the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard on the return trip to Vaughn, New Mexico. Photograph by Jack Delano, March 1943

FREIGHT TRAIN, 1943. Changing crews and cabooses on a westbound freight train along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, between Chicago and Chillicothe, Illinois

TRAIN DISPATCHER, 1943. A railroad dispatcher in the general office in Amarillo, Texas, working the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe line. Photographed by Jack Delano, March 1943

PITTSBURGH, 1941. Pedestrians waking down a snow covered staircase in the mill district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Photograph by Jack Delano, January 1941

TEXAS: AMARILLO, 1943. Aerial view of Amarillo, Texas. Photograph by Jack Delano, March 1943

TEXAS: GRAIN ELEVATOR, 1943. A row of grain elevators near Amarillo, Texas. Photograph by Jack Delano, March 1943

PUERTO RICO: TOBACCO, 1942. Tobacco leaves drying on a line in the vicinity of Barranquitas, Puerto Rico. Photograph by Jack Delano, January 1942

VERMONT STATE FAIR, 1941. The ferris wheel and side show tents at the Vermont State Fair in Rutland. Photograph by Jack Delano, September 1941

VERMONT STATE FAIR, 1941. Side show banners and rocket ride at the Vermont State Fair in Rutland. Photograph by Jack Delano, September 1941

VERMONT STATE FAIR, 1941. Aerial view of the ferris wheel, carousel and side show tents at the Vermont State Fair in Rutland. Photograph by Jack Delano, September 1941

GEORGIA: COTTON FARM, 1941. Migrant workers chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Georgia. Photograph by Jack Delano, June 1941

GEORGIA: COTTON FARM, 1941. Cotton workers going home after an afternoon of chopping cotton, Greene County, Georgia. Photograph by Jack Delano, June 1941

GEORGIA: TRAVEL, 1941. Three African Americans traveling to town in a horse drawn carriage on a Saturday afternoon in Greene County, Georgia. Photograph by Jack Delano, May 1941

MASSACHUSETTS: RAILROAD. Train and several sets of railroad tracks in the snow in Massachusetts. Photograph by Jack Delano, December 1940 or January 1941

MAINE: FARMLAND, 1940. Farms in the vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine. Photograph by Jack Delano, October 1940

VIRGINIA: FARM, c1940. Corn shocks on a mountain farm along the Skyline Drive, Virginia. Photograph by Jack Delano, c1940

FARMERs MARKET, 1940. Customers at the entrance of the Tri-County Farmers Co-op Market in Du Bois, Pennsylvania. Photograph by Jack Delano, August 1940

VIRGINIA: FARM, c1940. A mountain farm along the Skyline Drive, Virginia. Photograph by Jack Delano, c1940

CHICAGO: UNION STATION, 1943. The waiting room in the Union Railroad Station in Chicago, Illinois. Photograph by Jack Delano, January 1943

MIGRANT WORKERS, 1940. Florida migrants studying a road map before leaving Elizabeth City, North Carolina for the state of Delaware. Photograph by Jack Delano, July 1940

MIGRANT WORKER, 1940. A Florida migrant worker bringing her luggage outside in preparation for a trip from Belcross, North Carolina to another job at Onley, Virginia

RHODE ISLAND: AUTO, 1940. An Italian market gardener getting his car ready for a trip into town, Johnston, Rhode Island. Photograph by Jack Delano, December 1940

TOBACCO FARMERS, 1940. Polish tobacco farmers near Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Photograph by Jack Delano, September 1940

PUERTO RICO: SLUM, 1941. A family standing in the doorway of their delapidated shack in the slum area of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Photograph by Jack Delano, December 1941

PUERTO RICO: SLUM, 1941. A family standing in front of their delapidated shack in the slum area of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Photograph by Jack Delano, December 1941

PUERTO RICO: WORKERS, 1941. Sugar cane workers on a plantation in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Photograph by Jack Delano, December 1941

VERMONT: FARMING, 1941. Farmer stacking hay with a drop rake drawn by a horse, near Springfield, Vermont. Photograph by Jack Delano, August 1941

RAILROAD YARD, 1943. The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad yard in Needles, California. Photograph by Jack Delano, March 1943

PUERTO RICO: HOUSING, 1941. Aerial view of a land and utility municipal housing project in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Photograph by Jack Delano, December 1941

CONNECTICUT: HOUSES, 1940. A square with houses in an old fishing village in Stonington, Connecticut. Photograph by Jack Delano, November 1940

GEORGIA: CORN FIELD, 1941. A corn farm in Greene County, Georgia. Photograph by Jack Delano, May or June, 1941

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