WPA: Information Service: Washington D.C.: a man at work with Jack-hammer
- Date
- c. 1935
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 1,495 × 2,000 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Works Progress Administration).
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