Friday, December 17, 2010

John Vachon: Mid-American


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Seed and feed store, Lincoln, Nebraska: photo by John Vachon, 1942

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Rain, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: photo by John Vachon, June 1941

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Fountain in front of Union Station, St. Louis, Missouri: photo by John Vachon, May 1940

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Girl and movie poster, Cincinnati, Ohio: photo by John Vachon, October 1938

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Parking lot, Cincinnati, Ohio: photo by John Vachon, October 1938

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Man reading newspaper in Fountain Square, Cincinnati, Ohio: photo by John Vachon, October 1938

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Girl watching the sesquicentennial parade, Cincinnati, Ohio: photo by John Vachon, October 1938

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Cars parked diagonally along row of meters, Omaha, Nebraska: photo by John Vachon, November 1938

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Girl carrying her father's lunch pail, South Omaha, Nebraska: photo by John Vachon, November 1938

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Coal miner's son at Granger Homesteads, Iowa
: photo by John Vachon, May 1940

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Coal miner's son at Granger Homesteads, Iowa
: photo by John Vachon, May 1940

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North Dakota landscape, McHenry County
: photo by John Vachon, October 1940

Image, Source: b&w film copy neg. of print

Peculiar, Missouri
: photo by John Vachon, January, 1942

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Gas station, Benton Harbor, Michigan: photo by John Vachon, July 1940


Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio: photo by John Vachon, 1942


Photos by John Vachon from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress