1 Brian Vachon, "John Vachon, A Remembrance," in American Photographer 3, no. 4 (October 1979): 36.
2 Anne Hull, "John Vachon, Noted Cameraman, Departs," Greenbelt [Maryland] Cooperator, 8, no. 8 (October 8, 1943): 1-2.
3 John Vachon, "Tribute to a Man, an Era, an Art," Harpers, September 1973, 96-99.
4 Vachon, "Tribute to a Man," 98; George R. Leighton, "Omaha, Nebraska," Harpers, July, 1938, 113-14, 320-328.
5 Vachon to Stryker, [October 1938], Roy E. Stryker Papers, Photographic Archives, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky.
6 Vachon, "Tribute," 98. The street with cheap hotels was Douglas Street, and the railroad car was from the Chicago Great Western (CGW) line.
7 T. J. Maloney, ed., U.S. Camera 1940 (New York: Random House, 1939), 197.
8 George R. Leighton, "Omaha, Nebraska: The Glory Has Departed," in Five Cities: The Story of Their Youth and Old Age (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939), 140-236; Vachon's photographs appear on 151, 198, 199, 215, and 216.
9 File caption for negative LC-USF34-8859-D.
10 Jonathan Green, American Photography: A Critical History 1945 to the Present (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1984), 82.
11 Vachon to Stryker, October 12, 1938, Roy E. Stryker Papers, Photographic Archives, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky.