Switchman throwing a switch at C & NW RR1a34657v - crop
Cropped image of ("Switchman throwing a switch at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.") Medium:.C. 20540 USA Notes: Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Additional information about this photograph might be available through the Flickr Commons project at
- Date
- 1943-04
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 536 × 567 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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