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Fort Worth, Texas. Meacham Field. Instructor and students

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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

Temp. note: usf34batch3

Film copy on SIS roll 20, frame 1084.

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texas tarrant county fort worth safety film negatives lot 46 arthur rothstein photo meacham field office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress
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01/01/1942
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fort worth
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Library of Congress
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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

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texas tarrant county fort worth safety film negatives lot 46 arthur rothstein photo meacham field office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress