Striking color images capture the grit of 1940s rail workers

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December 1942

L. Logan, boilermaker at the roundhouse at the Proviso yards.

Image: Jack Delano/Library of Congress

Jack Delano joined the Farm Security Administration in 1940, inspired by the photographers who documented the conditions of poor laborers during the Great Depression.

When the FSA was absorbed into...

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