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Summary
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Temp. note: usf34batch6
Film copy on SIS roll 14, frame 2147.
Tags
west virginia
monongalia county
westover
nitrate negatives
lot 1723
marion post wolcott
photo
returns home
night shift
wife hungarian
ultra high resolution
high resolution
great depression
farm security administration
race relations
united states history
african americans
library of congress
Date
01/01/1938
Location
monongalia county
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html