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Caravan of Trailers for Defense Workers
| To provide temporary housing for defense workers
while more permanent quarters are being built for them, this caravan of
trailers crosses Memorial Bridge, Washington, D.C., on its way to
Wilmington North
Carolina. In the months before World War II, trailers are being used all over the United States to provide this type of emergency defense housing. This caravan of 50 was the first shipment of more than 2000 currently being constructed. While small, the trailers had "all of the comforts of home." On the way to Wilmington, the caravan stoped for the night at the Hain's Post Trailer Camp, Washington, D.C. Source: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection; Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)
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created 11/26/2005
updated 05/24/2006