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Skilled Negro works at Bolling Field, (U. S. Army), Washington, D.C

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

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Schomburg copy negative #: SC-CN-95-0148, SC-CN-0529
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Photographs
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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. Defense Industry
  2. Road Rollers
  3. War Work
  4. Washington (D.C.)

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