A group of people standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket.
Title and other information from lot catalog card.
"The crop of melons coming from the carefully preserved pips that were sown in the sand, then watered, to make gardens in front of tents at UNRRA's biggest refugee camp in the Middle East where 20,000 live under canvas." (Source: Caption list "Captions for OWI Pictures of El Shatt Camp" included with LOT 2183)
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: owibatch6
Film copy on SIS roll 18, frame 91.