• Does this denote a bus stop? - jdavis417
  • Hawaiian craze. - jdavis417
  • "Wilson whiskey." Hey, you're not driving, why not get wasted? "That's all" (tag line). - jdavis417
  • Train schedule? - jdavis417
  • Looks like it might be a thermometer, actually. - Circular Logic
  • Anyone else notice the overall healthiness of these people? No lazy burger-munchers here! All hail the non-obese Americans, truly an endangered species... - photonzdotcom
  • Non standardized no parking sign. That would be about 10 years away. - dokiy

Commuters, who have just come off the train, waiting for the bus to go home, Lowell, Mass. (LOC)

Delano, Jack,, photographer.

Commuters, who have just come off the train, waiting for the bus to go home, Lowell, Mass.

1941 Jan.

1 slide : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Commuters
Bus stops
United States--Massachusetts--Lowell

Format: Slides--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-1 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a33849

Call Number: LC-USF35-1

Comments and faves

  1. rogweb, Alison Chains, a.n., leiderman, and 287 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. SupRspi (61 months ago | reply)

    Great Picture. A real snapshot of a time gone by.

    Kudos to the LoC for making these available on flickr.

  3. fotos-de-alejandra [deleted] (61 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Social Documentary Photography & events, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

  4. bartenational (61 months ago | reply)

    cool
    they have great clothes

  5. amybrown (61 months ago | reply)

    Why don't people dress this fabulously anymore?

  6. D Westerman Bowen (61 months ago | reply)

    People don't dress this way anymore because it doesn't show enough flesh.

  7. Casto Creations (61 months ago | reply)

    I love the older fashions. So elegant, regal, and classy. Women aren't classy anymore. :(

  8. annick vanderschelden (61 months ago | reply)

    Look at these ladies. I want a date..
    Guess the guy to the right don't like photographers.

  9. azure elixir (60 months ago | reply)

    Waiting... a fascinating human behavior. great shot.

  10. cooleye foto (60 months ago | reply)

    Everyone looks sooooo happy in this photo!

    --
    Seen in your 1930s-40s in Color set. (?)

  11. Joel Mertz (59 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Shared Urban Space, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

  12. Jon Melville (55 months ago | reply)

    The city of Jack Kerouac

  13. Sibad (54 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Commuting WITHOUT a car, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  14. juffrouwjo (52 months ago | reply)

    I still dress like that every day.

  15. Onkel Ulle (51 months ago | reply)

    cool photo, light leak and all

  16. Carmine V. Kinbote (47 months ago | reply)

    in order for a train system to work buses must be efficient.

  17. typo/graphic posters (42 months ago | reply)

    Hi, we are a group dedicated to photos of typo/graphic posters and it would be a pleasure to have this photo in our showcase: typo/graphic posters

  18. billyvoo (41 months ago | reply)

    wow, awesome scene

  19. eyeformation (19 months ago | reply)

    A moment frozen in time... the bus never arrives.

  20. BookChief (12 months ago | reply)

    Jack's town

  21. hollow15 (10 months ago | reply)

    When men were men and women were women, Oh now it is "is he a she or she a he"

  22. Yuka Zuver (StudioDaCapo) (7 months ago | reply)

    Wow...like a scene from a movie.

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