Jack Delano (born Jacob Ovcharov; 1914–1997) was a Ukrainian immigrant who became an accomplished photographer for the Works Progress Administration, United Fund, and most notably, the Farm Security Administration (FSA). He wore many hats as he also was a composer known for his use of Puerto Rican folk material, started a television production company, and was a cartoonist, poet, moviemaker, professor, and architectural designer.
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| Tenant farmer and part of his family in field ready for tobacco planting. Nine miles north of Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, circa 1935-42 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| Children in Midland, Pennsylvania, January 1940 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| Family living in the "crackerbox" slum tenement in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, January 1940 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| Florida migratory farm worker, near Belcross, North Carolina, July 1940 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| Truck drivers shaving at truck service station on U.S. 1 (New York Avenue), Washington, D.C., June 1940 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| At the electric furnace in the foundry at the Farrell-Birmingham Company, Ansonia, Connecticut, November 1940 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| Children of Warren Franklin, dairy farmer near Guilford, Vermont, August 1941 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| Cleaning turpentine cups in boiling water at a still near Pembroke, Georgia, 1941 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| French village, a small settlement on Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. Children of a French family living in the French village, a small settlement, December 1941 |
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| French-speaking women and children who live in the little colony known as the French Village, in the outskirts of Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, December 1941 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| In the convict camp in Greene County, Georgia, May 1941 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| Mr. Eliot H. Miller, dairy farmer at Castleton, Vermont, August 1941 |
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| Mrs. Carrie Ward has lived near Leraysville for seventeen years. Now she is planning to move out of the Army camp area to a small farm in Sandy Creek. Her barn is numbered for auctioning, Leraysville, New York, August 1941 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| Mrs. Leroy Dunn chopping cotton in a field, White Plains (vicinity), Georgia, May 1941 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| Mrs. Robert McWharter, wife of a tenant purchase client, Woodville, Greene County, Georgia, June 1941 |
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| Negro tenant farm woman. A widow. She runs the farm with the help of two children, Greene County, Georgia, 1941 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| One of the children of Warren Franklin, near Guilford, Vermont, August 1941 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| One of the girls in the "girlie" show at the Rutland Fair, Vermont, September 1941 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| Tenant farmer's wife near Penfield, Greene County, Georgia, June 1941 |
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| The family of Clinton J. Stewart, White Plains, Greene County, Georgia, June 1941 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| Tony Thompson, born in slavery, Greene County, Georgia, June 1941 |
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| Worker who lives on one of the steep streets in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, December 1941 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| Newsboy selling the Chicago Defender, a leading Negro newspaper, Chicago, Illinois, April 1942 |
Life of the U.S in the Early 1940s Through Incredibly Colorized Photos
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| Welder who was employed in the roundhouse at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard, Chicago, Illinois, December 1942 |
