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Boys sitting on truck parked at the FSA ... labor camp, Robstown, Tex

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Boys sitting on truck parked at the FSA ... labor camp, Robstown, Tex

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11671-21.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Additional information about this photograph might be available through the Flickr Commons project at library_of_congress/2178338895

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