A welder in the round-house

A welder in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad’s Proviso Yard

When I cropped and digitally enhanced the image, I didn’t see the welder with the cutting torch. In fact, I didn’t see him until I started to prepare it for on-line publication.

Photographer: Jack Delano

Original color transparency image created: December 1942

Lib. of Congress–Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection

This image cropped and digitally enhanced, 11/29/2005 © MpG

Public domain digital file from original slide available at loc.gov

Post from one of my abandoned blogs – North Farnham Freeholder – recovered from Internet Archive WayBackMachine 2/27/2011 – page