Kempton-west-virginia-houses
Houses in coal company town of Kempton, West Virginia Maryland. The town was once located on the border between Preston County, West Virginia and Garrett County, Maryland.
- Date
- 1939-05
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 7,000 × 5,446 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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"Kempton-west-virginia-houses" (1939-05). FSA/OWI. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kempton-west-virginia-houses.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 121104.
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