Jack Délano - the Man Who Colored the Forties (18 pics)
General view of part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Illinois, May 1943
A young worker at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Illinois, 1942
Taken in September 1941, this is the backstage area of the girlie show at the Vermont State Fair
Farm workers chop cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Georgia in June 1941
Commuters, who have just come off the train, waiting for the bus to go home, Lowell, Mass in January 1941
A young family wonder in which direction they should go at the Vermont County Fair, September 1941
Going to town on Saturday afternoon, Greene County, Georgia, May 1941
A "barker" at the Vermont state fair, Rutland, September 1941
Sugar cane workers resting, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico - December 1941
The son of a sugar cane workers resting, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico - December 1941
Packing oranges at a co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, California, Macrh 1943
Children gathering potatoes on a large farm, vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine. Schools did not open until the potatoes were harvested, October 1940
Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton, Iowa - April 1943
Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Illinois, April 1943
1943, shows one of the hundreds of thousands of women who worked on the train system at the time while the men were away at war.
She is Viola Sievers, who worked as a wiper – which was basically a train washer
Men reading headlines posted in street-corner of Brockton Enterprise newspaper office, Brockton, Mass.December 1940
Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard operating a signal switch system which extends the length of the hump track.
He is thus able to control movements of locomotives pushing the train over the hump from his post at the hump office; Chicago, Illinois, December 1942.
"Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland, 1941 September
