Civil Works Administration Workers Laying Water Main Pipes
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1934
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 74, Box 217, Folder: 6
This photograph shows Civil Works Administration laborers laying water main pipes to the Office of the Director in the National Zoological Park. The CWA was a New Deal program established to employ people during the Great Depression. These laborers are laying the water main in the snow.
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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2003-19547
Color: Sepia; Size: 4 1/2wx 7h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print