Jack Delano

Delano was born Yakov Ovcharov to a Jewish family in , Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). Delano, along with his parents and younger brother, emigrated to the United States in 1923. The family arrived in New York on July 5, 1923, on the SS Homeric, and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after. ==Career==

Farm Security Administration at the Chicago railyards in 1942 for the Farm Security Administration Photography Program After graduating from the PAFA, Delano found it difficult to secure a career in painting, illustrating, or music, so he decided to look into a photography program he had heard about through the Federal Art Project (FAP). He had moved to New York and had been freelancing as a photographer at the time, and decided to propose a photographic project to the FAP: a study of mining conditions in the Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, anthracite coal area. Delano sent sample pictures to Roy Stryker and applied for a job at the Farm Security Administration Photography Program. Through the help of Edwin Rosskam and Marion Post Wolcott, Stryker offered Delano a job at $2,300/year in 1940. Move to Puerto Rico , Puerto Rico. Jack Delano, December, 1941. Delano traveled to Puerto Rico in 1941 as a part of the FSA project. He was meant to spend a few days there on his way to the Virgin Islands, but his trip turned in to a few months due to the US declaring war after the Pearl Harbor bombing. This trip had such a profound influence on him that he settled there permanently in 1946. He mentioned being both fascinated and disturbed by the conditions he saw on the island, that he had never seen such intense poverty or met such kind people. He became highly regarded on the island in time, and there were few Puerto Ricans who did not know who he was, or hadn't interacted with his work (illustrations, cartoons, movies, movies, musicals, etc.) in some way, frequently. on the Puerto Rican folk music called Plena. His score for the film Desde las nubes demonstrates an early use of electronic techniques. Most of his works composed after he moved to Puerto Rico are notable for using folk material in a classical form. Public television Delano and two of his friends from the FSA, Edwin and Louise Rosskam, helped to create the Cinema and Graphics Unit (CGU, now known as the Division of Community Education) of the Commission of Parks and Recreation when asked by the governor to create a platform that would use film and graphics to improve education in rural areas. In 1957, they then founded Puerto Rico's first publicly funded educational television station, WIPR where Jack also acted as a station producer, composer, and program director. This started Jack's slow move away from photography and into creating in other areas. WIPR produced many notable programs, including “Puerto Rico: Workshop for the Americas” in 1961 which shed a light on the importance of Puerto Rican development to the Americas, touched on the difference between Cuba (under Fidel Castro) and Puerto Rico and how peaceful the island is, and even secured an exclusive interview with Puerto Rican governor Luis Muñoz Marín. ==Death==

Jack Delano died after a short illness in San Juan on August 14, 1997, at age 83. ==Selected compositions==

; Orchestral • Ofrenda Musical (Musical Offering) for viola, horn and string orchestra (1959) • El sabio Doctor Mambú, Ballet for children (1962); libretto by the composer • Concertino classico for C trumpet and small orchestra (1968) • Sinfonietta for string orchestra (1983) ; Chamber and instrumental music • Sonata in A minor for viola and piano (1953) • Sonata for violin solo (1960) • Sonatina for flute and piano (1965) • String Quartet (1984) • Tres preludios (3 Preludes) for piano (1985) • "Aves" −10 piezas breves para piano (Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico 1987); Vocal • Esta luna es mía for soprano solo, female chorus and piano (1962); words by José P.H. Hernández • Me voy a Ponce for mixed chorus (1965); words by José Agustín Balseiro • Tres cancioncitas del mar for medium voice and piano (1969); words by Nimia Vicéns, Ester Feliciano Mendoza and Carmelina Vizcarrondo • Cuatro sones de la tierra for voice and piano (1974); words by Tomás Blanco • Pétalo de rosa, Suite for a cappella children's choir (1993); written for the San Juan Children's Choir ; Film scores • Los Peloteros (1953) ; Discography • Al menos cantos (2022), released by Lexicon Classics, showcases 16 songs by Jack Délano, featuring mezzo-soprano Laura Virella, pianist Alla Milchtein and cellist Kate Dillingham. ==Gallery==

File:JimCrowInDurhamNC.jpg|"At the bus station", May 1940 File:Washing eggs to be sold at Tri-County Farmers Co-op Market at Du Bois, Pennsylvania fsa8c02961u.jpg|"Washing eggs to be sold at Tri-County Farmers Co-op Market at Du Bois, Pennsylvania", August 1940 File:Delano-Brown-and-Sharpe.jpg|"Employees leaving Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island", December 1940 File:Utuado Children 01534u.jpg|"Children in Utuado, Puerto Rico", May 1942 File:Chicago Union Station 1943.jpg|One of Delano's most famous pictures, of Chicago Union Station, January 1943 File:Roundhouse wipers.jpg|Roundhouse wipers at lunch, Clinton, Iowa, April 1943 File:Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad.jpg|Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of the giant 4-8-4 "Northern" H-class steam locomotives, Clinton, Iowa, April 1943 File:Chicago, Illinois. Frank Williams, working on the car repair tracks at an Illinois Central Railroad yard.tif|Chicago, Illinois. Frank Williams, working on the car repair tracks at an Illinois Central Railroad yard File:Queen of Wellstown, 1942.tif|"Queen of Wellstown," 1942 File:Newsboy selling the Chicago Defender, a leading Negro newspaper.tif|Newsboy selling The Chicago Defender, 1942 File:C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three children, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa LCCN2017878358.tif|C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three children, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. April 1943. File:Small farms in the southwest, Puerto Rico LCCN2017877775.tif|"Small farms in the southwest," Puerto Rico, Jan 1942. File:FSA borrower who lives in village La Vallee, St. Croix island, Virgin Islands LCCN2017877842.tif|"FSA borrower who lives in village La Vallee, St. Croix island, Virgin Islands." Dec 1941. File:Loading oranges into refrigerator car at a co-op orange packing plant LCCN2017878156.tif|"Loading oranges into refrigerator car at a co-op orange packing plant," March 1943. File:Sugar cane workers resting, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico LCCN2017877774.tif|Sugar cane workers resting File:Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive at the C & NW RR (i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad), 40th Street locomotive shops LCCN2017877989.tif|Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive at the C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], 40th Street locomotive shops. Dec 1942. File:Going to town on Saturday afternoon, Greene Co., Ga. LCCN2017877500.jpg|"Going to town on Saturday afternoon," Greene Co., Ga. May 1941. File:FSA - T(enant) P(urchase) borrowers? by their house, Puerto Rico LCCN2017877765.tif|"FSA - Tenant Purchase borrowers? by their house", Puerto Rico. 1941 File:Sugar cane workers resting at the noon hour, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico LCCN2017877770.tif|"Sugar cane workers resting at the noon hour," Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. 1941. File:Street scene, Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands? LCCN2017877866.tif|"Street scene, Christiansted," St. Croix, Virgin Islands. 1941. File:Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill, C&NWRR (i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad). William London has been a railroad worker 25 years - now working at the roundhouse at the Proviso yards LCCN2017878057.tif|"Chicago and North Western railroad," William London has been a railroad worker 25 years - now working at the roundhouse at the Proviso yards. 1942. File:Sugar cane worker and his woman, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico LCCN2017877759.tif|"Sugar cane worker and his woman", Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. 1941. File:Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga. LCCN2017877520.tif|"Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains," Greene County, GA. June 1941. File:Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad conductor George E. Burton and engineer J.W. Edwards comparing time before pulling out of Corwith railroad yard for Chillicothe, Illinois; Chicago, LCCN2017878085.tif|Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad conductor George E. Burton and engineer J.W. Edwards comparing time before pulling out of Corwith railroad yard for Chillicothe, Illinois; Chicago. March 1943. File:Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill.; C & NW RR (i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad); Roy Nelin, a box packer in the roundhouse at the Proviso yard LCCN2017878059.tif|Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill.; C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad]; Roy Nelin, a box packer in the roundhouse at the Proviso yard. Dec 1942. ==References==