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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Leslie Darrell Ragan
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Leslie Darrell Ragan

American, 1897 - 1972
Place of BirthWoodbine, Iowa
Place of DeathMultnomah, Oregon
Iowa native Leslie Ragan studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and served as a pilot in World War I before establishing himself as a commercial artist. Ragan specialized in transportation subjects and was noted for his travel posters and posters and illustrations of trains and trucks.