Photo Yardman polishing light on railroad switch. Elkins, West Virginia 1939

Photo Yardman polishing light on railroad switch. Elkins, West Virginia 1939 Review

Photo Yardman polishing light on railroad switch. Elkins, West Virginia 1939 Feature

• Photo Reprint
• Printed at 20 x 16 in.
• 1939

The black-and-white photographs of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are a landmark in the history of documentary photography. The images show Americans at home, at work, and at play, with an emphasis on rural and small-town life and the adverse effects of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and increasing farm mechanization. Some of the most famous images portray people who were displaced from farms and migrated West or to industrial cities in search of work. In its latter years, the project documented America's mobilization for World War II. Photo Yardman polishing light on railroad switch. Elkins, West Virginia 1939. Reprint is 20 in. x 16 in. on archival quality photo paper.