Jon Chase

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  • Hired hand in a tobacco field, Jackson, KY, 1978. The owners of this field klndly put up my traveling companion and myself for the night, after meeting us by a roadside flea market. Jackson is nestled in the heart of the Cumberland Plateau in the Appalachian Mountains. Kentucky produces more tobacco than any other state except North Carolina. For centuries, tobacco barns dotted the central Kentucky landscape, but as health risks from smoking became clear, sales of the state’s longtime top crop plummeted. Now farmers are turning to hemp as a less labor-intensive, more profitable alternative with a growing market for the extracted CBD oil. Jon Chase photo
  • The last New Year's Eve celebration ever at the Marlboro-Blenheim Hotel, Atlantic City, in 1977, before the historic structure was demolished the following fall. When it was built in 1902-1906, the Marlboro-Blenheim was the largest reinforced concrete building in the world. Most of the people present on this night were devoted guests who returned year after year to celebrate with decades-old friends. Thanks to fellow photographer and good friend Roz Gerstein, who accompanied me and generated the idea for this photo expedition. Jon Chase photo
  • © 2010 Harvard University. Harvard Cycling Team on early morning practice run, Cambridge, MA.
  • © 2010 Harvard University. Biologist E. O. Wilson, world reknown authority on ant life.
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  • Dying of lung disease, Eileen smokes in her room.
  • Singer Ray Charles performs at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, MA.
  • © 2010 Harvard University. Harry Parker, in his 40th year as Harvard men's crew coach, stands by a photo of the 1974 heavyweight crew that went undefeated for 4 consecutive years.
  • Hang glider, California coast.
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  • Llamas graze on a terrace in the mist at Machu Picchu, Peru, with ruins visible at upper left. Jon Chase photo
  • Coal miners on graveyard shift, Twilight, W.VA. Jon Chase photo
  • Grand Canyon. Jon Chase photo
  • © 2010 Harvard University. Legendary folksinger Pete Seeger performs a song as actor John Lithgow watches.
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  • Don Gardner, 91, retired English teacher and college administrator, is confined to a wheelchair with a debilitating nerve disease that has robbed him of the use of his legs and more recently, his hands. Jon Chase photo
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