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Title: Richmond - Housing for Shipyard Workers
Creator: Dorothea Lange
Date Created and/or Issued: February 1944
Publication Information: Oakland Museum of California
Contributing Institution: Oakland Museum of California
Collection: Lange (Dorothea) Collection
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Description: Housing in Richmond The shipyard workers negro & white Maritime Commission for families acres and acres in units all over the area - [illegibile portion] at the time Feb 1944
Type: image
Format: Photonegative Eastman Safety Film photography
Form/Genre: photonegative
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5s2004jv
LNG42113.2
Subject: World War II; shipyard; war industry; Richmond; Kaiser Shipyard; labor; housing; African American; clothesline; house; mud; trailer; automobile

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