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Housing--Housing Developments

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Stories

"We Stalk and Trap an Apartment"

“Ready for Occupancy?”

Wartime housing in Washington State: Seattle (Holly Park, Duwamish Bend) and Tacoma (Salishan article, Salishan essay)

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Photos

These photos are in the collection of the University of San Diego .

Marine family in their new home in housing project, 1

Marine family in their new home in housing project, 2
 

These photos are in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

"4,000 Unit Housing Project Progress Photographs March 6,1943 to August 11, 1943, Richmond, CA ; Children playing , sliding down a slide."

"4,000 Unit Housing Project Progress Photographs March 6,1943 to August 11, 1943; Housing units by railroad tracks"

"4,000 Unit Housing Project Progress Photographs March 6,1943 to August 11, 1943; Looking down a street towards the west"
 

The American Memory collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II:  Photographs from the FSA/OWI, 1935-1945 . has many photos of defense housing developments. Search keywords, defense housing.
 
These photos are on the Call It Home site from Columbia University.

Defense housing

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Pamphlets

This pamphlet is in the Northwestern University Library collection.   Click on the small image to see a larger one.

FWA builds for victory
 

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These pamphlets are in the Central Libraries of Southern Methodist University collection.

Defense housing 1941

Homes for defense:  a statement of function

War housing in the United States
 

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