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Narrow street, New Brunswick, New Jersey: photo by Carl Mydans, February 1936
To and fro in shadow from inner to outer shadow
Bed and sitting room, Hamilton County, Ohio: photo by Carl Mydans, December 1935
from impenetrable self to impenetrable unself by way of neither
View of the Manville Works, Manville, New Jersey: photo by Carl Mydans, February 1936
as between two lit refuges whose doors once neared gently close, once away turned from gently part again
Tenement kitchen, Hamilton County, Ohio: photo by Carl Mydans, December 1935
beckoned back and forth and turned away
The Calco Chemical Company near Bound Brook, New Jersey: photo by Carl Mydans, February 1936
heedless of the way, intent on the one gleam or the other
South River, New Jersey: photo by Carl Mydans, February 1936
unheard footfalls only sound
Bed and sitting room, Hamilton County, Ohio: photo by Carl Mydans, December 1935
till at last halt for good, absent for good from self and other
Van Horn Street, Hamilton County, Ohio: photo by Carl Mydans, December 1935
then no sound
Interior of a Negro dwelling, Hamilton County, Ohio: photo by Carl Mydans, December 1935
then gently light unfading on that unheeded neither
unspeakable home
Tent squatter, common scene along the Ohio River, Hamilton County, Ohio: photo by Carl Mydans, December 1935
Photos by Carl Mydans from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress