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Smith, Roger

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Original negative #: D-9724; Caption on back: "One of 600 skilled workers employed in the construction of Wake and Midway Halls, now being completed by Samuel Plato, contractor, for 1,000 Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C. Photo shows carpenter fitting window. (March 1943)
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United States. Office of War Information
Created Date:
1943
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. Carpenters
  2. Defense Industry
  3. Labor Housing
  4. War Work
  5. Washington (D.C.)

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