William Carlos Williams: Sketch for a Portrait of Henry Ford


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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Montana (detail): photo by Russell Lee, October 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)





A tin bucket
full of small used parts
nuts and short bolts
slowly draining onto
the dented bottom --
forming a heavy sludge
of oil -- depositing
in its turn steel grit

Hangs on an arm
that whirls it at increasing

velocity around
a central pivot --
suddenly the handle gives
way and the bucket
is propelled through
space  . . . . .





William Carlos Williams: Sketch for a Portrait of Henry Ford, 1939, from Matrix (November-December 1940), in Poems 1939-1944




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 Automobile parts at junkyard, near Abbeville, Louisiana: photo by Russell Lee, November 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Nuts and bolts, junkyard, near Abbeville, Louisiana: photo by Russell Lee, November 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Workman at an automobile graveyard on Ridge Avenue, Manayunk, Pennsylvania: photo by Paul Vanderbilt, Spring 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Auto dump near Easton, Pennsylvania: photo by Walker Evans, November 1935 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Auto junkyard along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, Hereford (vicinity), Texas: photo by Jack Delano, March 1943 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Auto junkyard in Salisbury, Maryland: photo by Jack Delano, March 1943 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Junkyard near Sulphur Springs, Maryland, along U.S. Highway No. 1: photo by Jack Delano, June 1940 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Junkyard near Abbeville, Louisiana: photo by Russell Lee, November 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Junkyard owner near Abbeville, Louisiana: photo by Russell Lee, November 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Farmer watching junkyard owner examining condition of spark coils in model-T Ford, Abbeville, Louisiana: photo by Russell Lee, November 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Wheels, tires and general junk at junkyard near Abbeville, Louisiana: photo by Russell Lee, November 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Automobile parts in junkyard, near Abbeville, Louisiana: photo by Russell Lee, November 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Flywheels and speedometer cables in junkyard, near Abbeville, Louisiana: photo by Russell Lee, November 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Group of automobile crankshafts in junkyard, near Abbeville, Louisiana: photo by Russell Lee, November 1938  (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Display of headlights in junkyard, near Abbeville, Louisiana: photo by Russell Lee, November 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Discarded automobile motors in junkyard, near Abbeville, Louisiana: photo by Russell Lee, November 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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 Tire rims at junkyard, near Abbeville, Louisiana: photo by Russell Lee, November 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Group of automobile springs, junkyard near Abbeville, Louisiana: photo by Russell Lee, November 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Junkyard, Duluth, Minnesota: photo by Russell Lee, May 1937  (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Men sitting on parts of truck in junkyard, South Side of Chicago, Illinois: photo by Russell Lee, April 1941 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Men sitting on parts of truck in junkyard, South Side of Chicago, Illinois: photo by Russell Lee, April 1941 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Junkyard, Washington, D.C.: photo by John Vachon, August 1938



Automobiles parked on a rainy night on 52nd Street, New York City: photo by William P. Gottlieb, c. July 1948 (William P. Gottlieb Collection, Library of Congress)


Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Montana: photo by Russell Lee, October 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Montana (detail): photo by Russell Lee, October 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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