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The Henderliter Place, Second & Cumberland Streets, Little Rock, Pulaski County, AR

Oldsmobile Sales Co., Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C.

An old black and white photo of a truck parked in front of a house. Grea Depression era FSA/OWI photograph.

Oldsmobile Sales Co., Rock Creek Park, [Washington, D.C.]

Arlington, Virginia. Installing new top on a used car

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Last year this camp averaged two trailers at a time. It now has about twenty-five trailers occupied mostly by defense workers. In or near Alexandria, Virginia

Children of defense workers playing near their "homes" trailers. Trailer camp on Mount Vernon Highway near Alexandria, Virginia

Trailers occupied by torpedo plant workers and their families. Trailer camp Alexandria, Virginia

Trailer occupied by defense worker and family. Trailer camp on U.S. 1 outside Alexandria, Virginia

Trailer occupied by defense worker and family. Trailer camp on U.S. 1 outside Alexandria, Virginia

Workers from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, who stopped at one of the trailer camps wanting to buy a trailer. Didn't know how long work here would last. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

Residents of trailer camp for Navy Yard construction workers. Portsmouth, Virginia

Workers from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, who stopped at one of the trailer camps wanting to buy a trailer. Didn't know how long work here would last. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

Many private homes in East Hartford, Connecticut are using all of their available yard space for parking areas for defense workers. Often trailers are sold there too

Last year this camp averaged two trailers at a time. It now has about twenty-five trailers occupied mostly by defense workers. In or near Alexandria, Virginia

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01/01/1941
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Roberts, Martha McMillan, photographer
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Alexandria ,  38.81982, -77.08419
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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

label_outline Explore Last Year, Last, History Of Alexandria Virginia

Housing for defense workers. Greenbelt, Maryland

Alexander McConnell House, Alexandria, Independent City, Virginia

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, situated a quarter mile from General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. There are 200 trailers here, occupied by childless couples and by families of one or two children

Each family in trailer has own electric meter box. Trailer camp on U.S. 1 outside of Alexandria, Virginia

Wife of torpedo plant worker talks with her neighbor. Trailer camp in Alexandria, Virginia

Haystack and barn of Jo Webster, farmer in El Camino district, Tehema County, California. He owns twenty-five acres but owes money on irrigation bonds. He rents an additional fifteen acres. He has about twenty dairy cows, poultry and raises his own alfalfa

View of crowd, bride and groom, and car painted with "Just Married" on the rear window

Ford Motor Co., Banner Laundry truck at George Washington Mem., [Alexandria, Virginia]

Baltimore & Potomac Interlocking Tower, Adjacent to AMTRAK railroad tracks in block bounded by Howard Street, Jones Falls Expressway, Maryland Avenue & Falls Road, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Chicago, Illinois. Parmelee Transfer cabs carry passengers from the Union Station to any other station in the city to make train connections

Production. War housing trailers. Many time-saving methods are employed in the making of war housing trailers at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. A heavy-duty stapling machine, for example, makes fast work of fastening the waterproof finish sheeting in place. Later a decorative strip will cover the staple heads and the sheeting will be trimmed off flush with the lower edge of the stip

V.E. Wood Auto Building, 315 State Street, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, CA

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