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Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 510.
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michigan
wayne county
detroit
safety film negatives
alfred t palmer
united states office for emergency management
photo
trucks
army truck
dodge
army specifications
army
sixty percent grade
office of war information
farm security administration
united states history
truck
detroit publishing company photograph collection
library of congress
Date
01/01/1940
Location
detroit
Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain