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About: Header Images

Mike Evans, a Welder

Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.
Jack Delano, photographer,
1943.

Source on the Web

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Meeting of the Mechanics and Others of the City of Washington

Meeting of the Mechanics and Others of the City of Washington,
broadside,
Washington, D.C., 1852.

Source on the Web

Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

“Lightnin’” Washington

“Lightnin’” Washington, an African American prisoner, singing with his group in the woodyard at Darrington State Farm, Texas,
Alan Lomax, photographer,
April, 1934.

Source on the Web

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.