Wisdom


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Image, Source: digital file from original transparency

Wisdom, Montana, April 1942



Triumph of the Will
over the contingent
and the incidental
Wisdom, Montana
April 1942
everything we could view
looked large
and nearly empty
John Vachon's vision
of an arid
America



Image, Source: digital file from original slide

Cemetery at edge of Romney, West Virginia, 1942



Lincoln, Nebraska
March-April
1942
forty days
without a
traffic
fatality



Image, Source: digital file from original transparency

Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942


Photos by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)