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Photographer: Paul Crumlish
Taken: August 2, 2010
Caption: Vanport Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (top center) Henry Kaiser highlighted above.; (upper right) A groundbreaking 24-hour daycare program, the largest in the world, cared for preschoolers and older children and cooked hot take-home meals for parents returning from the shipyard. School classes and faculty for Vanports's 9,000 children were racially integrated. Schools ran seven days a week.; (lower right) Dikes surrounding Vanport presumably would protect it from flooding, but an old railroad cut that had been filled in as part of the dike on the western edge of Vanport unexpectedly gave way. (bottom strip) After the war, pioneering aspects of Vanport’s child and health care programs remained popular examples of what a private enterprise and the government could achieve when united in a common purpose -- “an experiment in the full socialization of life.”
Submitted: November 25, 2010, by PaulwC3 of Northern, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p137976
File Size: 1.918 Megabytes

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