Photos of some of the places and events in First Comes Winter

  • Eutaw Place Temple, Baltimore. 1940s.

  • Hale County, Alabama. ca. 1942.

  • Howard Street, Baltimore. 1940s.

  • Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. Early 1940s.

  • Gold Coast Oak Street Beach, Chicago. 1940s.

  • SBD "Dauntless" dive bombers. June 1942.

  • Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. 1940s.

  • South Side Chicago. Early 1940s.

  • USS Essex CV-9. 1943-1944.

  • Detroit Race Riot. June 1943.

    Source: Cosgrove, Ben “Hatred on the Home Front: The Detroit Race Riots During WWII”, Time Magazine, 6/18/14

  • Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands. Early 1944.

  • Pre-blast Port Chicago, California. ca. 1943.

  • Pre-blast Port Chicago, California. ca. 1944.

  • Post-blast Port Chicago, California. July 1944.

    Source: Archie, Ayana, “The Navy exonerates 256 Black sailors unjustly punished over 1944 WWII port explosion”; NPR, 7/18/24