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Saturday 25 June 2011

Hotel Wisdom


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Boy listening to radio set and reading book: stereograph print by Underwood & Underwood, 1909 (Library of Congress)

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Hotel Wisdom, Wisdom, Montana (pop. 385)
: photo by John Vachon, April 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Hotel room, Hotel Wisdom, Wisdom, Montana (pop. 385):
photo by John Vachon, April 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Street scene, Newport News, Virginia: photo by John Vachon, September 1937
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Water boy on Little Rock, Arkansas/Missouri state line section of the war emergency oil pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois: photo by John Vachon, October 1942
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Pot firer and assistants. Their faces are painted with salve for protection against fumes of hot asphalt paint

Pot firer and assistants, faces painted with salve for protection against fumes of hot asphalt paint,
on Little Rock, Arkansas/Missouri state line section of the war emergency oil pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois: photo by John Vachon, October 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Worker cleaning out any dirt that may be inside the pipe by sliding through sections of pipe before they are welded to main stem

Worker preparing to crawl through section of pipe to clean out any dirt before pipe is welded to main pipeline stem,
Arkansas/Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas section of the war emergency oil pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois: photo by John Vachon, October 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. A cotton picker crossing the pipeline

A cotton picker crossing the pipeline, Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri/Arkansas state line section
of the war emergency oil pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois: photo by John Vachon, October 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Sunray, Texas. Carbon black plant workers washing up at the end of the day

Sunray, Texas. Carbon black plant workers washing up at the end of the day
: photo by John Vachon, November 1942

4 comments:

STEPHEN RATCLIFFE said...

Tom,


What stories these pictures 'tell' -- none of them told. ". . .nothing/ but to regard. . ."

6.25

light coming into fog against invisible
ridge, song sparrow calling from branch
in foreground, wave sounding in channel

motion of material particle,
is action described by

particular form, is nothing
but to regard, come to

silver of low sun reflected in channel,
wingspan of pelican flapping across it

TC said...

Steve,

Light coming into fog here now also, with difficulty, bits of blue through cloud, beginning another story...

(I've wondered what book it might be that that boy in the top photo is, or shall I say was, reading.)

TC said...

Well, as he's evidently taking/making notes, perhaps one ought to say not "reading" but "studying"... no time like the present for serious scholarship -- "Do It Now"!

(And meanwhile there's the corollary question, what's he listening to?)

STEPHEN RATCLIFFE said...

Tom,

Yes, absolutely, me too -- what is/was he reading (and listening to), another of those stories that we don't get to hear, here. . . .

6.27

light coming into fog against invisible
ridge, song sparrows calling from field
in foreground, sound of wave in channel

order of lines, position of
figure after painting

real of “to call,” thinking
in this way, calls to

silver of sunlight reflected in channel,
shadowed canyon of ridge across from it