These are photographs taken by Jack Delano 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.
CNW. Switch Lists, 1942.
"Switch lists coming in by teletype to the hump office at a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard, Chicago, Ill." Call Number: LC-USW36-530 [P&P] December, 1942. Tom Tillson, on the Greenkeys Teletype-related discussion list notes that the article of furniture here is called a "standing foreman's / receiving desk," and is in itself unrelated to Teletypes. Note that the full-size PNG of this image is 39 Meg (which is better than the 132 Meg TIFF version at the L of C).
CNW. Switch Lists, 1942.
"Chicago, Illinois. Switch lists coming in by teletype to the hump offices at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard." Call Number: LC-USW3- 012528-D [P&P] December, 1942.
IC. Yard, 1942.
"Chicago, Illinois. Switch lists are sent by teletype from the main yard office to yardmasters, tower men, and other offices at an Illinois Central Railroad yard." Call Number: LC-USW3- 010516-D [P&P] November, 1942.
PRR. Operator, Union Station, 1943.
"Chicago, Illinois. In the Pennsylvania Railroad telegraph room at the Union Station." Call Number: LC-USW3- 015530-E [P&P]. January, 1943.
PRR. Switchboard, Union Station, 1943.
"Chicago, Illinois. Telegraph switch board of the Pennsylvania railroad in the Pennsylvania telegraph room at the Union Station." Call Number: LC-USW3-015566-E [P&P]. January, 1943.
PRR. Teletype, Union Station, 1943.
"Chicago, Illinois. Teletype machines connect the reservation bureau of the Union Station with the companies' offices in various parts of the country." Call Number: LC-USW3- 015892-D [P&P]. February, 1943.
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