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Description:
Robert Hill, steel car repairer and rivet driver, at the car shops of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in Topeka, Kansas, 1943. Hill was born in Drew County, Arkansa. He moved to Topeka in 1919, working as a carman for the Santa Fe from 1922 to 1962. He died in 1963. |
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Image (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
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Spatial, Topeka, Kansas; Temporal, March 1943 |
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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. |
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| Collection: |
Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information |
