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Hot lunches are served on the job by colored vendors; Soups, beans, and coffee were their menu, with occasional corn bread and succotash; Emergency office space construction; Washington, D.C.; Dec., 1941

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

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Image
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Contributors:
United States. Farm Security Administration
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Farm Security Administration Collection

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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 Construction Workers
  2. African Americans
  3. Capitols
  4. Street Vendors
  5. Washington (D.C.)

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