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C & NW RR, putting the finishing touches on a rebuilt caboose at the rip tracks at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train, railroad, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

WWII color photographs. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs from the Library of Congress. The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4x5 inches. Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The pictures focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working.

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chicago and north western railway company world war railroad cars painting railroad shops and yards illinois melrose park transparencies color nw rr touches caboose rip proviso yard proviso yard chicago american workers in color economic and social conditions workers worker kodachrome united states history locomotive library of congress
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01/01/1939
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Delano, Jack, photographer
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American Workers in Color

WWII color photographs.
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Melrose Park ,  41.90059, -87.85673
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Library of Congress
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http://www.loc.gov/
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chicago and north western railway company world war railroad cars painting railroad shops and yards illinois melrose park transparencies color nw rr touches caboose rip proviso yard proviso yard chicago american workers in color economic and social conditions workers worker kodachrome united states history locomotive library of congress