This is a great portrait. I can almost smell the pipe smoke. A retired railroad engineer, this gent's second career involves growning corn and wheat on a 25-acre Virginia farm.
1940. Photo by Jack Delano. [American Memory link]
Showcasing some of the 160,000 images taken between 1935 and 1944 by government-hired photographers. (If you were to look at 100 of them per day, every day, you'd need more than four years to view them all).