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Production. War housing trailers. The floor of a war housing trailer is laid over a chassis in inverted position at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. This facilitates installation of wheel wells of paper plastic and painted with asphaltic preservative paint. Drive screws hold the plastic wheel well in place

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description

Summary

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
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
Film copy on SIS roll 31, frame 457.

date_range

Date

01/01/1942

place

Location

california

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Source

Library of Congress

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Link

https://www.loc.gov/

copyright

Copyright info

Public Domain