File:Government hotel for Negro women war workers. 8b04986v.jpg

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English: Title: Government hotel for Negro women war workers. A group of young war worker-residents are shown enjoying a game of cards in the fully equipped game room of the Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotels for Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C.
  • Slowe Hall opened December 15, 1942. Roger Smith photographed this facility and other newly constructed Federal dormitories for war workers on May 18, 1943, during an inspection tour by Eleanor Roosevelt. This photo was more likely taken in 1943.

Creator(s): Smith, Roger, photographer Related Names: United States. Office of War Information. Date Created/Published: between 1942 Fall and 1943 Apr. Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-USE6-D-007369 (b&w film neg.) Call Number: LC-USE6- D-007369 [P&P] LOT 1914 (corresponding photographic print) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Notes: Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 19.
Date between Fall 1942 and April 1943
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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID fsa.8b04986.
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Author Smith, Roger, photographer

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Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.

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