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On exhibition at the Juanita Kreps Gallery at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University from January 23 to July 23, 2012. A reception will be...
Shot putter
JOHN VACHON. Shot putter, University of Nebraska. [1942.] 1a34275
Wheat
JOHN COLLIER. Wheat, Pennsylvania. July 1943. 1a34557
Malaria poster in a small hotel
JACK DELANO. Malaria poster in a small hotel, Puerto Rico, San Juan. December 1941. 1a34060
"Backstage" at the "girlie" show
JACK DELANO. "Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland. September 1941. 1a33920
At the Vermont state fair
JACK DELANO. At the Vermont state fair. Rutland. September 1941. 1a33910
Wheat farm
RUSSELL LEE. Wheat farm, Walla Walla, Washington. July 1941. 1a34223
Saying grace
RUSSELL LEE. Saying grace before the barbecue dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. October 1940. 1a34140
Second-hand plumbing store
JACK DELANO. Brockton, Mass. Second-hand plumbing store. December 1940. 1a33851
Wisdom, Montana
JOHN VACHON. Wisdom, Montana. April 1942. 1a34384
Two employees in the roundhouse
JACK DELANO. Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. December 1942. 1a34600
A cross roads store
MARION POST WOLCOTT. A cross roads store, bar, "juke joint," and gas station in the cotton plantation area, Melrose, La. June 1940. 1a34060
State fair barker
JACK DELANO. Barker at the grounds of the Vermont state fair, Rutland. September 1941. 1a33917
Grand Grocery Co
JOHN VACHON. [Grand Grocery Co.], Lincoln, Neb. [1942]. 1a34273
Chopping cotton
JACK DELANO. Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Geene county, Ga. June 1941. 1a33894
Blacksmith's helper
JACK DELANO. Daniel Anastazia, blacksmith's helper at the roundhouse of the Rock Island R.R., Blue Island, Ill. April 1943. 1a34792
L. Logan, boilermaker at the roundhouse
JACK DELANO. Melrose Park (Near Chicago), Ill: C & NW RR, L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the roundhouse at the Proviso yard. December 1942. 1a34673
Jim Norris and wife
RUSSELL LEE. Jim Norris and wife, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico. October 1940. 1a34109
Worker at carbon black plant
JOHN VACHON. Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray Texas. 1942. 1a35446
Rural School Children
JOHN VACHON. Rural school children, San Augustin County, Texas. April 1943. 1a35424
U.S. Army Air Forces Pilot
ALFRED T. PALMER. [U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in front of a YB-17 bombing airplane, probably Langley Field, Virginia.] May 1942. 1a35161
Mrs. Elbia Slematter
JACK DELANO. C & N.W. R.R. Mrs. Elbia Slematter, working as a sweeper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. April 1943. 1a34803
Scrap and salvage depot.
RUSSELL LEE. Scrap and salvage depot. Butte, Mont. October 1942. 1a35036
Japanese-American camp
PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN. Japanese-American camp, war emergency relocation. [Tule Relocation Center, Newell, Calif,] 1942 or 1943. 1a35016
Condemned shacks
MARION POST WOLCOTT. Shacks condemned by Board of Health, formerly (?) occupied by migrant workers and pickers, Belle Glade, Fla. 1a33402
Vermont state fair
JACK DELANO. Vermont state fair, Rutland. September 1941. 1a33924
House, Houston, Texas
JOHN VACHON. House, Houston, Texas. May 1943. 1a35441
Shulman's market
LOUISE ROSSKAM. [Shulman's market, on N at Union Street S.W., Washington, D.C.] [Between 1941 and 1942]. 1a34421
M-4 tank crews of the United States
ALFRED T. PALMER. M-4 tank crews of the United States, Ft. Knox, Ky. June 1942. 1a35210
Open-pit workings
ANDREAS FEININGER. Open-pit workings of the Utah Copper company, Bingham Canyon, Utah. This is the Carr Fork side from which the company obtains huge amounts of...
Bingham Copper Mine, Utah
ANDREAS FEININGER. Carr Fork Canyon as seen from "G" bridge, Bingham Copper Mine, Utah. November 1942. 1a34851
In the roundhouse, Chicago, Ill.
JACK DELANO. In the roundhouse at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard, Chicago, Ill. December 1942. 1a34655
General store, near Questa, Taos County, NM
JOHN COLLIER. General store, near Questa, Taos County N[ew] Mex[ico]. Spring 1943.
Llano de San Juan, New Mexico, Catholic Church
RUSSELL LEE. Llano de San Juan, New Mexico, Catholic Church. July or October 1940. 1a34155
Grain elevators, Caldwell, Idaho
RUSSELL LEE. Grain elevators, Caldwell, Idaho. July 1941. 1a34206
People at the Fair
RUSSELL LEE. People at the Fair, Pie Town, New Mexico. October 1940. 1a34140