See How Washingtonians Lived In The 1940s
By A Mystery Man Writer
Description
Photographer Gordon Parks captured quotidian moments in the lives of the District's working class, particularly African Americans.
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1940-1949 - Washington Rowing
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Lewis County Rosies Featured in Women's Trade Calendar
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Harlem, 1943-1944 - Photography Archive - The Gordon Parks Foundation
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GORDON PARKS: THE NEW TIDE - Museum Exhibitions - The Gordon Parks Foundation
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See How Washingtonians Lived In The 1940s
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The Gritty History (and Gentrification) of Fells Point
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Hercules Brown, 1944 - Photography Archive - The Gordon Parks Foundation
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Workers in New York City, 1944-1948 - Photography Archive - The Gordon Parks Foundation
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The Last Civil War Veterans Who Lived to Be Over 100… Or Did They?, History
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Youth Congress opens in Washington, DC: 1940, A few of the …
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Over Apartments, But Can't Afford A House: Finding The Missing Middle Of D.C.'s Housing Market
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PITTSBURGH GREASE PLANT, 1944/46 - Photography Archive - The Gordon Parks Foundation
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Harlem Gang Leader, 1948 - Photography Archive - The Gordon Parks Foundation
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Workers in New York City, 1944-1948 - Photography Archive - The Gordon Parks Foundation
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