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Family group playing cards in one of the new homes on the Hightstown Project, New Jersey

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Family group playing cards in one of the new homes on the Hightstown Project, New Jersey

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01/01/1936
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Mydans, Carl, photographer
United States. Resettlement Administration.
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Hightstown (N.J.), 40.26944, -74.52333
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