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Gage Irrigation Canal, Running from Santa Ana River to Arlington Heights, Riverside, Riverside County, CA

Negro transient agricultural laborers quarters. Homestead, Florida

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Edwards Facility, Mixer, Edwards Air Force Base, Boron, Kern County, CA

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Trailers occupied by defense workers inside 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

Trailer camp occupied mostly by torpedo plant workers and their families in Alexandria, Virginia

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

Trailer occupied by war department employee and wife from Pennsylvania. Trailer camp near Alexandria, Virginia

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

Wife of defense worker hanging out wash in trailer camp on Mount Vernon Highway near Alexandria, Virginia

Trailer occupied by war department employee and wife from Pennsylvania. Trailer camp near Alexandria, Virginia

Trailers occupied by defense workers inside Alexandria, Virginia

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Summary

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

Temp. note: usf34batch1

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virginia alexandria safety film negatives lot 1449 martha mcmillan roberts photo defense workers ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress
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Date

01/01/1941
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Location

alexandria
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Library of Congress
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Link

https://www.loc.gov/
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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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Body of Admiral Dewey being taken from Arlington, Virginia, 32825

Plan e : [map showing two blockhouses between "Turn Pike Road" and "bridge," Alexandria, Virginia].

Poplar Forest, State Route 661, Forest, Bedford County, 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

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small Eastern manufacturing firm. Unable to purchase much new machinery, the owner of the company installed and remodelled old equipment to produce war essentials under subcontract. First orders were delivered thirty days after contract, an amoazingly short time considering that conversion of machines took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

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

[Farmville, Virginia, vicinity. High bridge of the South Side Railroad across the Appomattox]

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a shack. Office of War Information Photograph

Remains of wood heater used in former lumber camp at Craigville, Minnesota

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

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