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Date Created1936-06

DescriptionThe photograph depicts men working in the potato field at Jersey Homesteads, one of the crops on the farm of four hundred and fourteen acres. Source: Farm Security Administration, Office of War...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleRoosevelt market

Date Created1968, 1968

DescriptionPhotograph shows a clerk assisting a man and woman at the deli counter of a grocery store. Source: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress...

Time PeriodPostwar years (1945-1970)

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TitleArtist Ben Shahn at home in Roosevelt with granddaughter Sarah

Date Created1960

DescriptionAfter completing the mural in the Roosevelt Public School, Shahn and his wife artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn settled in Roosevelt.

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleModeling a hat

Date Created1936-11

DescriptionModel trying on hat for a buyer, New York City showroom, Jersey Homesteads cooperative. Source: Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleCloseup of presser's hands, Jersey Homesteads

Date Created1936-11

DescriptionMan pressing cloth with an iron. Source: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA....

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleFamily scene with motorcycle in front of typical house, Roosevelt, New Jersey

Date Created1980, 1980

DescriptionTwo men and one woman sit in lawn chairs in front of a ranch style house with number 27 on the front door, talking to a younger man sitting on a motorcycle.

Time PeriodContemporary America (1968-present)

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TitleHat makers

Date Created1936-11

DescriptionHat makers at the cooperative garment factory, Jersey Homesteads. Source: Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleRescue squad

Date Created1950-1959

DescriptionRescue squad in front of first ambulance, Roosevelt.

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitlePatchwork blanket

Date Created1936-11

DescriptionHarry Kaplan (right) showing blanket which he has made from waste scraps of cloth. Source: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleCloseup of presser's hands

Date Created1936-11

DescriptionPhotograph shows a man in a white shirt and tie pressing a garmet. Source: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)