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Slum clearance plans rushed projects. The Housing Division of RWA? begins shipment of 3,300 sets of plans and 9,900 sets of specifications covering 46 slum clearance projects in widely separated sections of the country. About 25,000 modern homes are program. From the left: C.W. Fitch, assistant director of the Housing division, ...athleen Brown, a clerk, and A.R. Clas, Director? 2135

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Equipped with her "bible," a copy of the General Maximum Price Regulations written painstakingly in Mandarin, one of the chief languages of China, Mrs. Joanne A. Tee, price specialist of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), is explaining the necessity for posting ceiling prices to Lee Bow, manager of a large wholesale and retail store in New York's Chinatown. Like the people of their native land, whose fighting spirit has earned the admiration of all freedom-loving nations, the Chinese-American storekeepers are fighting the Axis by cooperating with the government in the battle against inflation

New York, New York. Photographic department of the New York Times newspaper. The Times syndicates its photographs all over the world; sends some by clipper to Europe daily

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alters clothing for herself, family members and friends.

A couple of kids standing next to each other in a store. Office of War Information Photograph

New General Post Office bldg. [i.e., building]. Public Hall showing people at counter posting letters, etc.

Easter vigil and baptism, Nueva Esperanza Church, Oblate Hispanic Mission, Lowell, Massachusetts

Romeo Berthiaume Georgette Berthiaume, Woonsocket Rhode Island

Harper's Store, Ocilla, Georgia, South Georgia.

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Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

Proprietor Elsa Mantilla (in dotted dress) with seamstresses Aurora Goicoechea (in long-sleeve blouse) and Milagros "Millie" Cueto.

Shop owner Elsa Mantilla (right) joins Cueto, Goicoechea and Brenda Freytes discussing dress to be made.

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work processes dressmaking ethnographic photographs dominican americans 21st avenue paterson n j elsa fashions paterson nj ethnography paterson nj shop owner elsa mantilla shop owner elsa mantilla cueto goicoechea brenda freytes brenda freytes dress high resolution united states history library of congress
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01/01/1994
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Carroll, Thomas D. (Collaborator)
Mantilla, Elsa (Depicted)
Cueto, Milagros "Millie" (Depicted)
Freytes, Brenda (Depicted)
Cooper, Martha (Photographer)
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Paterson (N.J.) ,  40.91667, -74.17194
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Dye house machine operator Martino Cardone.

Elsa Mantilla, seated in the audience, watches contestants in evening gowns walk down the runway.

Detail of farmer's blue jeans, boots and spurs. This man was once a cowboy and still prefers the cowboy's dress. Pie Town, New Mexico

Homewoven dress and rug, Westmoreland Homesteads, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Westmoreland homesteader wearing dress of cloth woven herself on homestead looms and working on rug woven by her homestead loom

The cotton pickers on this farm were temporary neighbors to the owner. Four adults and seven children. The latter as follows: one six year old boy picks one hundred pounds a day. His father said "He picks one hundred pounds every day." Two children of seven pick one hundred and fifty pounds a day each. One of nine years picks about two hundred pounds. Several from ten to fifteen pick three to four hundred pounds. The whole group picks a bale a day. (1,600 to 1,800) pounds a day. Location: McKinney [vicinity], Texas.

Workers at work at Garden State Cutting Company.

Proprietor Elsa Mantilla (in dotted dress) with seamstresses Aurora Goicoechea (in long-sleeved blouse) and Milagros "Millie" Cueto; blue gown is being worked on in the background.

Dominican American Contestants participate in dance routine.

A group of men standing next to each other, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

Aurora and Milagros putting dress on dressmaker's model.

[Theodore Roosevelt standing with mostly African men in traditional dress]

Exterior of front of Elsa's Wholesale & Retail, 368 21st Avenue.

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work processes dressmaking ethnographic photographs dominican americans 21st avenue paterson n j elsa fashions paterson nj ethnography paterson nj shop owner elsa mantilla shop owner elsa mantilla cueto goicoechea brenda freytes brenda freytes dress high resolution united states history library of congress