Click on Image to View Larger Image
Library of Congress
|
| Title: |
Train Director at Chicago Union Station (editor's title) |
| Creator: |
Delano, Jack, 1914-97
|
|
Description:
Harry W. Trout (1889-1949) was a long-time Chicago Union Station employee, working there from 1915 until retiring in 1949. His last job was as train director, Harrison St. tower, the south interlocking. He was local chairman for the telegrapher's union for many years and "left nothing undone and was constantly working to improve the working conditions for the boys in our organization," according to the Railroad Telegrapher. |
|
| Classification: |
Labor and Workers (LCSH)
Jack Delano Railroad Images
|
| Date Created: |
1943 |
| Resource Type: |
Image (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
|
| Format: |
Black and white print
|
| Rights: |
Library of Congress |
| Coverage: |
Spatial, Chicago, Illinois; Temporal, January 1943 |
| Source: |
Library of Congress |
| Image ID: |
LC-USW3- 015563-E |
| Depicted Railroad: |
Chicago Union Station Co.
|
| Location: |
Chicago, Illinois |
|
Creator Description:
Jack Delano (1914-97) had careers as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration, beginning in 1940, and a composer of music. Born in Ukraine, he came to the U.S. in 1923. He graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1932, and because of an impressive photographic project about mining conditions in the Pennsylvania anthracite area, got a job with the FSA. He photographed railroads extensively for the FSA and its successor, the Office of War Information. He worked particularly in Chicago, then to the Pacific Coast, often using color--a new medium at the time. He concentrated on showing how the railroad industry worked and on the people who did the work. As part of another FSA project he visited Puerto Rico and settled there in 1946, becoming an important composer of serious Puerto Rican music, much of it derived from folk tunes. |
|
|
Comments:
The Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information began as a New Deal program of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency as a part of the Resettlement Administration, which was established to combat poverty. It evolved into the modern Farmers Home Administration that helps farmers acquire property. The FSA engaged photographers to document rural America, resulting in iconic images by such notable photographers as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks. After the U.S. declared war on Japan and also joined its European allies in their strike against Germany in 1941, the government created the Office of War Information, whose photographers documented America's mobilization from 1942 through 1943. (The war ended in 1945.) They concentrated on topics like industry and women and minorities in the work force. FSA and OWI photography efforts were led by Roy Emerson Stryker, and the resulting 108,000 images are now at the Library of Congress. Many document railroad-related subjects, especially World War II home-front activities. |
|
| Collection: |
Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information |
| Institution: |
Library of Congress
|
|
