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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, 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

A young Man’s Opportunity for Work, Play, Study & Health
Albert M. Bender, artist,
Chicago: Illinois WPA Art Project, [1941]
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

“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.
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