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Smith, Roger

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Caption on back: "Hilyard R. Robinson, pioneer architect and engineer in low-income public housing, shown completing plans for one of two new war-housing projects at Ypsilanti, Mich. These projects will relieve acute shortage of homes for workers at the Henry Ford Willow Run bomber plant, located five miles from Ypsilanti. Mr. Robinson has designed public housing projects costing more than $10,000,000.
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United States. Office of War Information
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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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  1. African American Architects
  2. African American Engineers
  3. African Americans
  4. Defense Industry
  5. Labor Housing
  6. War Work

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