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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

Smith, Roger

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Original negative #: 25317-C; Caption on back: "Manpower shortage is so acute in Washington, D.C. that for the first time in history, Negro women are now employed as gardeners in the Rose Gardens of the Botanical Gardens - one of the beauty spots of the Nation's Capital.
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Photographs
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United States. Office of War Information
Created Date:
1939 1945
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African American Women
  2. African Americans
  3. Defense Industry
  4. Raking (Sweeping)
  5. United States
  6. United States Botanic Garden
  7. War Work
  8. Washington (D.C.)
  9. Women
  10. Women Gardeners
  11. Women In War

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