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Background photograph for Hightstown project. Play street for children. Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City. The Solomon family who are to be resettled at Hightstown, live in this neighborhood. This Resettlement Administration project includes two hundred and fifty homes, four hundred and fourteen acres of farmland, a modern factory, utilities, including water system, recreation area and lake. Each family will have a modern home and an opportunity to work in a cooperative factory. Also a small plot of land for raising garden vegetables
Background photograph for Hightstown project. Play street for children. Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City. The Solomon family who are to be resettled at Hightstown, live in this neighborhood. This Resettlement Administration project includes two hundred and fifty homes, four hundred and fourteen acres of farmland, a modern factory, utilities, including water system, recreation area and lake. Each family will have a modern home and an opportunity to work in a cooperative factory. Also a small plot of land for raising garden vegetables
1936 · New York, New York (State), United States
by Dorothea Lange
A street market with crates of produce sits beside a sign reading "PLAY STREET CLOSED" on an empty city street.
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FSA documentary work, 1930s · Library of Congress
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection
FSA/OWI photographs are works of the U.S. federal government in the public domain
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