A group of men standing around a table. Office of War Information Photograph
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"The carpentery [carpentry] shop at El Shatt, UNRRA's biggest refugee camp, makes all its own tools, brooms from bamboo poles, cut by razor blades to form the brush, cupboards, hospital tables, children's cots, just to mention a few of the items manufactured principally from scrap for wood is a rare commodity in Egypt." (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 151.
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