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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan in the bedroom of the Rogan's new defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her husband is a drill operator at the nearby General Electric Company plant, which is working three shifts on defense contracts

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Bernie Rogan, son of Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Rogan, in the bathroom of the Rogan's new defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. His father is a drill press operator at the nearby plant of the General Electric Company, which is working three shifts on defense contracts

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Bernie Rogan, son of Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Rogan, in the bathroom of the Rogan's new defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. His father is a drill press operator at the nearby plant of the General Electric Company, which is working three shifts on defense contracts

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Bernie Rogan, son of Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Rogan, in the bathroom of the Rogan's new defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. His father is a drill press operator at the nearby plant of the General Electric Company, which is working three shifts on defense contracts

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Bernie Rogan, son of Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Rogan, in the bathroom of the Rogan's new defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. His father is a drill press operator at the nearby plant of the General Electric Company, which is working three shifts on defense contracts

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan and her small son, Bernie, in the kitchen of the Rogan's new war home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. Rogan is a drill press operator at a nearby plant which is is working three shifts on defense contracts. Mr. Rogan earns $42.50 a week, and spends about twenty percent of his income for rent

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. J.P. Kane, defense housing project manager at the Franklin Terrace project, explains the forced-air heating system of a defense home to B.J. Rogan, worker in the General Electric plant at Erie, Pennsylvania

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan receives deliveries of laundry, ice and grocery items from local businesses that serve the defense trailer camp twice daily. Mrs. Rogan's husband is employed by the General Electric Company as a drill press operator or defense work. Although grocery stores and milk companies deliver to the doors of the trailer town, agents, salesmen and canvassers are forbidden in the settlement. This is to see that the defense workers on the night shift may sleep during the morning or early afternoon

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. B.J. Rogan, one of thousands employed by the General Electric Company in Erie, Pennsylvania,to provide the nation with defense materials, enjoys a brief relaxation with his wife and small son. A beach on Lake Erie is located within a few blocks of the defense trailer camp

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan in the bedroom of the Rogan's new defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her husband is a drill operator at the nearby General Electric Company plant, which is working three shifts on defense contracts

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

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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 184.

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pennsylvania erie county erie safety film negatives lot 1911 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo defense home defense contracts general electric company plant office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress
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01/01/1941
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pennsylvania erie county erie safety film negatives lot 1911 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo defense home defense contracts general electric company plant office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress