Charlie Chaplin Chicken

A poster for a sideshow at a county fair. Rutland, Vermont. 1941.

Photo by Jack Delano.

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Dancing the Night Away

Club DeLisa, Chicago. 1942.

Photo by Jack Delano.

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Slipping & Sliding

Children with a sled. Jewett City, Connecticut. 1940.

Photo by Jack Delano.

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Thanksgiving Dinner

Thanksgiving dinner at the home of Timothy Levy Crouch, whom the photo caption describes as a "Rogerine Quaker."

1940, Connecticut. Photo by Jack Delano.

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Anticipation

A younger son of the Timothy Levy Crouch family peeks into a pot pre-Thanksigving dinner in 1940 Ledyard, Connecticut.

Note the wood-fired stove. Other shots show the boy's father fetching firewood for the event.

Photo by Jack Delano

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Husband & Wife

This lovely portrait, of Mr. & Mrs. William Gaynor, was taken in 1941. The couple are dairy farmers. Other photos in the series show them milking cows and canning vegetables while their children collect potatoes from the fields.

Photo by Jack Delano.

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Scantily Clad

Wrestlers at the 1941 Tunbridge, Vermont "World Fair."

Photo by Jack Delano.

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Inmate

In 1941, a portion of the Charlotte Amalie Hospital in the Virgin Islands was allocated to the "insane asylum."

These days, the photo caption would describe this individual as a patient/client rather than an "inmate." And the facility would be called a "mental health center."

(photographer: Jack Delano)

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Fat Ladies

A poster for a sideshow at a county fair.

Vermont, 1941 (Jack Delano).

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Sweat

Taken by Jack Delano - apparently in the Virgin Islands, late 1941.

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Brothers & Sisters

These youngsters are identified as the children of Albert Lynch, a farmer receiving government assistance in Dummerston, Vermont.

Another photo in the series shows seven siblings in total - none of whom could be described as over-fed. There are no pictures - or any mention - of their mother.

Photographed by Jack Delano, Aug. 1941.

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Train Brakeman

A railway brakeman standing atop a train in March 1943. The caption for this photo says it was taken near Cajon, California.

Explains photographer Jack Delano: "Brakemen ride the trains in this way during the entire descent from Summit to San Bernardino."

One wonders what today's health and safety authorities would say about such a practice :-)

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