Washington, D. C. slums with Capitol Building 2
Washington D.C. slum area
- Date
- 1937-11
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 4,352 × 3,205 pixels
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