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"The car windows aren't broke," said this machinists wife. "We had to put up something to keep the sun out of Daddy's eyes. He works nights and sleeps in the car days. The children and I sleep in it nights. I wish we were home again. War or no war, if I'd known there'd be no place in Richmond we could live, I just wouldn't have come. You can live like this only so long, then you can't stand it any more."

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Title: "The car windows aren't broke," said this machinists wife. "We had to put up something to keep the sun out of Daddy's eyes. He works nights and sleeps in the car days. The children and I sleep in it nights. I wish we were home again. War or no war, if I'd known there'd be no place in Richmond we could live, I just wouldn't have come. You can live like this only so long, then you can't stand it any more."
Publication Information: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Kaiser (Henry J.) Collection - Selections From the Pictorial Collection, 1941-1946
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4r29p3nk
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