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Working on repair of Route 40, Central, Ohio

A couple of men standing next to a boat. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

Mrs. Hutton builds fire in outdoors burner which heats the water for laundering. Pie Town, New Mexico

Site of the new palaces--remains of the Palais de l'Industrie in the background / A. Castaigne.

Laying cinder blocks on a house under construction at Greendale, Wisconsin

An old black and white photo of a man working on a stove. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

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Working on repair of Route 40, Central, Ohio

Workers repairing Route 40, Central Ohio

Workers repairing Route 40, central Ohio

Workers repairing Route 40, central Ohio

Workers repairing Route 40, Central Ohio

Workmen repairing Route 40, central Ohio

Workmen repairing Route 40, central Ohio

Workmen, road repair gang, Route 40, central Ohio

Repairing Route 40, central Ohio

Working on repair of Route 40, Central, Ohio

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General caption for this series of images: These pictures taken immediately preceeding Ohio Democratic primaries. Incumbent governor Martin Davey set thousands of people to work on the roads for the several weeks preceeding primaries. They were laid off immediately after, but anyway the tactics failed. Davey defeated.

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

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01/01/1938
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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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Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Construction of a Liberty ship. On the third day the bottom is completed except for forward and aft ends, and on it have been set inner bottom tanks for fuel or ballast. The midships bulkhead has been raised

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information archive

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out patterns for various parts of naval vessels under construction. These patterns are subsequently transferred to steel

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A section of a ship's bottom being lowered into place

Construction. Construction of unidentified structure V

[City of Cleveland, Steamer #168 on the ways]

John Beekman House, 29-29 1/2 Cherry Street, New York, New York County, NY

Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding division, yard number two. Pietro Cressano worked at the yard for seven months, and was in building construction work before that. He was born in America but both parents were born in Italy

Washington, D.C. Construction of a bridge and road near Independence Avenue and 14th and 16th Streets, S.W. Pile of welded steel reinforcing mesh for use in concrete paving

Avery Island Salt Works, Akzo Salt Incorporated, Avery Island, Iberia Parish, LA

A group of men working on a construction project, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

Barn erection. Raising last half of gable end panel into place. Southeast Missouri Farms Project

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ohio nitrate negatives lot 1011 ben shahn photo ultra high resolution high resolution great depression farm security administration elections democratic party democratic party us primaries governors united states history construction sites construction workers workers construction library of congress