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Dubuque, Iowa, gas station at night, April 1940
We live in an old chaos of the sun,
Or old dependency of day and night,
Or island solitude, unsponsored, free,
Of that wide water, inescapable.
Deer walk upon our mountains, and the quail
Whistle about us their spontaneous cries;
Sweet berries ripen in the wilderness;
And, in the isolation of the sky,
At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
Downward to darkness, on extended wings.
Wallace Stevens: from Sunday Morning (1915) in Harmonium, 1923
Under the Elevated tracks, Chicago, July 1940
Under the El tracks, Chicago, July 1941
Under the El tracks, Chicago, July 1941
Chicago, Illinois, July 1941
Chicago, Illinois, July 1941
[Somewhere in the Upper Midwest], late summer 1941
[Somewhere in the Upper Midwest], late summer 1941
[Somewhere in the Upper Midwest], October 1940
Bidding on futures, Minneapolis, Grain Exchange, September 1939
Sign in beer parlor window, Sisseton, South Dakota, September 1939
Photos by John Vachon from Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress
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