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Designs war housing projects

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1260433


Item data

Title

Designs war housing projects

Collection

Occupations
War industry workers
War Industry workers- Men

Names

Smith, Roger (Photographer)
United States. Office of War Information (Sponsor)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1939 - 1945 (Approximate)

Library Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Occupations

Subjects

War work
Defense industry
African American engineers
Labor housing
African American architects

Genres

Photographs

Notes

Content: Caption on back: "Hilyard R. Robinson, pioneer architect and engineer in low-income public housing, shown completing plans for one of two new war-housing projects at Ypsilanti, Mich. These projects will relieve acute shortage of homes for workers at the Henry Ford Willow Run bomber plant, located five miles from Ypsilanti. Mr. Robinson has designed public housing projects costing more than $10,000,000."

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver, 8 x 10 in.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16181531
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG03-F224
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 318fd970-c6d1-012f-b2ae-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

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MLA format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Designs war housing projects" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1939 - 1945. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/318fd970-c6d1-012f-b2ae-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1939 - 1945). Designs war housing projects Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/318fd970-c6d1-012f-b2ae-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Designs war housing projects" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 14, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/318fd970-c6d1-012f-b2ae-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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