Workers Laying Water Main at National Zoological Park
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Form/Genre: Landscape
Date: 1934
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 74 Box 217 Folder 6
This photographs shows Civil Works Administration laborers cutting a trench for laying a water main at the National Zoological Park (NZP). The location is on Adams Mill Road in order to provide fire protection near the office of the Director. The CWA was part of the New Deal plan to employ people during the Great Depression.
National Zoological Park (U.S.)
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 74 Box 217 Folder 6
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1934
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2003-19579
Color: Black and White; Size: 5w x 7h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print