These are photographs taken primarily by Jack Delano (with one by John Vachon) for the Office of War Information. They are in the "Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Black and White Negatives" collection of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division . They are all in the public domain (as are the versions of them here).
In each case the version linked-to is a full resolution PNG that I have created from the original TIFF downloaded from the L of C. Regrettably, for this series of photographs the highest-resolution digital versions available from the Library of Congress are not very high resolution. Since the Library of Congress URLs have changed at least once, instead of citing the URL of the original image, I'll cite the call number.
ATSF. Seligman, AZ. 1943.
"Seligman, Arizona. Teletype operator in the telegraph office of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. The time here changes from Mountain to Pacific time." Call Number: LC-USW3- 011444-D [P&P]. March, 1943. I've cropped the thumbnail image here so as to try to show more detail of the operator and one machine. The full image (click to see it) shows two elaborate clocks as well.
ATSF. Argentine, KS, Switching Gear. 1943.
"Argentine, near Kansas City, Kansas. Checking the telegraph apparatus in the telegraph room of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad office building." Call Number: LC-USW3- 019146-D [P&P]. March, 1943.
ATSF. Amarillo, TX. 1942.
"Amarillo, Texas. Yardmaster's office at the Santa Fe Railroad." Call Number: LC-USW3- 011444-D [P&P]. November, 1942. Photograph by John Vachon.
All of the OWI images here were created as official US federal government photographs and are in the public domain. The digitized versions of them at the Library of Congress and the re-presentation of these here remain in the public domain.
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