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Switchman resting in the hump office while waiting for the next cut to come over at a yard of the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad

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A couple of people standing outside of a house, possibly related to: Coal miner's shack and some of his family, Pursglove, West Virginia

A couple of women standing outside of a house, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

Lone Pine, Calif., May 1942 - a group arriving by train from Elk Grove, and boarding a bus for Manzanar, a War relocation authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry from certain West Coast area[s], will stay for the duration of the war

Boy and girl, en route to Batavia, New York from Richwood West Virginia to upper New York state to work in the harvest

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Switchman resting in the hump office while waiting for the next cut to come over at a yard of the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad

Switchman giving the "go ahead" signal on an Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad train

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Switchman giving the "go ahead" signal on an Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad train

A caboose rolling down the hump to join its train in a classification yard of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad

A black and white photo of a person sitting in a bus. Office of War Information Photograph

Switchman giving the "go ahead" signal on an Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad train

Switchman giving the "go ahead" signal on an Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad train

Chicago, Illinois. Workmen in the hump office resting a few minutes while waiting for the next "cut" to come over the hump in a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Switchman resting in the hump office while waiting for the next cut to come over at a yard of the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad

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Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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Date

01/01/1943
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Delano, Jack, photographer
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Location

Middle Run ,  38.59399, -80.80982
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Library of Congress
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http://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a store. Office of War Information Photograph

Office wagon of headquarters Department of the Cumberland

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A black and white photo of a woman and a horse, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

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A black and white photo of two men standing on a train. Office of War Information Photograph

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state employment office trying to get jobs on Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida

City Post Office, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Bulova Demco, Valley Stream, Long Island. Reception office II

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