Jack Délano: The Man Who Coloured the Forties

Jack Délano was a photographer for the Farm Security Administration during the New Deal period and his pictures of American working people in the 1940s made him world famous.

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Above: Commuters, who have just come off the train, waiting for the bus
to go home, Lowell, Mass in January 1941

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Above: Farm workers chop cotton on rented land near White Plains,
Greene County, Georgia in June 1941.

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Above: Taken in September 1941, this is the backstage area of the girlie show
at the Vermont State Fair.

This excellent post at Kuriositas tells his story.