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Image of WPA applicants in a Seattle office, 1937
1986.5.16697.1
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WPA applicants in a Seattle office, 1937

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Handwritten on sleeve: W.P.A., Seattle, applicants.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): February 8, 1937.
ID Number: 1986.5.16697.1
Date: 1937
Physical Description: 1 acetate negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.
Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, 1986.5.16697.1
Copyright: All Rights Reserved
Subjects: Works Progress Administration (WPA), Great Depression, Labor and Labor Unions
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