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Albert M. Bender, artist,
Chicago: Illinois WPA Art Project, [between 1936 and 1941].
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
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.
Prints and Photographs 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.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
Elaine Cerri in Kitchen of Main Residence
Elaine Cerri in Kitchen of Main Residence,
Howard W. Marshall, photographer,
1979.
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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