Freight car and grain elevators, Omaha, Nebraska
November 1938
John Vachon
Artist, American, 1914 - 1975
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 18.3 × 24.2 cm (7 3/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
sheet: 20.7 × 25.4 cm (8 1/8 × 10 in.) -
Accession Number
2026.1.36
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco); Ron Perisho, Gettysburg, PA, 1990; NGA purchase, 2026.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, upper left stamped in black ink: PLEASE NOTE: / Kindly Return Unused Photos / to the Division of Information, / Farm Security Administration, / Washington, D. C.; upper right stamped in black ink: PLEASE CREDIT / F. S. A. / FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION / PHOTO BY: VACHON; by unknown hand, center in graphite: 8906 [illegible]; lower left inverted: Grain elevator. / Omaha; bottom right: 114