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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: March 15, 2014
Caption: Arlington Virginia,
FSA Trailer Camp Project for Negroes,
Single Type Trailer; April 1942
Additional Description: The James Bland Homes project was preceded on the site by a WWII era Public Housing Authority trailer camp established in 1943 for African Americans displaced by urban renewal in downtown Alexandria.Close-up of photo on marker
Library of Congress, Virginia FSA
Submitted: March 17, 2014, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p268389
File Size: 2.175 Megabytes

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