Jack Delano
Untitled (Paste-Up of Railroad Car Sides)
1942
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Jack Delano
Untitled (Paste-Up of Railroad Car Sides)
1942
Physical Qualities
Gelatin silver print (photomontage), Sheet: 261 x 203 mm. (10 1/4 x 8 in.)
Image: 246 x 176 mm. (9 11/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Chessie Systems Railroad Funds
Object Number
1986.129
In the early 1940s, Jack Delano took hundreds of photographs (in black and white and color) of trains, conductors, stations, passengers, and tracks throughout the United States, but especially in the Midwest. To create this work, Delano pasted forty-two photographs of the sides of freight cars—including the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at lower right—onto a sheet with a numbering system below and then photographed it again.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
Inscribed: Verso: at upper center, in graphite: "Jack Delano"
Markings: Verso: at left center, stamped in black ink: "PLEASE NOTE: Kindly Return Unused Photos / to the Division of Photography / Office of War Information, / Washington, D. C."; at lower right, stamped in black ink: "PLEASE CREDIT / O. W. I. / OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION PHOTO BY DELANO"
