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Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 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 37, frame 244.

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01/01/1941
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virginia waynesboro safety film negatives lot 2116 united states office of war information john vachon shenandoah valley penn foundary pulley belts office of war information farm security administration manufacturing united states history library of congress