Cropped Flickr - …trialsanderrors - Jack Delano, The end of the trip, 1943
Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. The conductor standing on the caboose platform is ready to hop off as the train passes the yard office at the end of the trip. Photograph by Jack Delano on assignment for the Farm Security Administration, January 1943.
- Date
- 1943-01
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 539 × 525 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US FSA/OWI; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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