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Railroaders: Jack Delano's Homefront Photography
Railroaders Jack Delano's Homefront Photography Author:John Gruber, Jack Holzhueter, Pablo Delano, Jeremi Suri, Scott Lothes Catalog for the exhibition at the Chicago History Museum is 200-pages, hardbound, 11- by 11.5-inches and published by the Center for Railroad Photography & Art. Printed in the US, it features 108 photographs, including seventy-three of Jack Delano's 1942-1943 views of Chicagoland railroads and their workers, reproduced in full color with rich qu... more »adtones for the black-and-whites. Contempoary photographs by Jack's son, Pablo Delano, and the Center's John Gruber and Scott Lothes complement the catalog. There are essays by Pablo Delano, Gruber, and University of Texas professor Jeremi Suri, a leading public historian. Biographical essays prepared by Center editorial consultant Jack Holzhueter as well as Gruber and Lothes tell the life stories of the forty-nine railroaders.« less