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March 1941. "Defense workers in front of rooming houses. Norfolk, Virginia." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Is another Man's flower planter.
These two young guys look about twenty, or younger, to me. My own mother quit high school at 16 in 1942 to go to work in a defense plant and made good money until the end of WWII. After all, there was a war on!
I realize as I get older kids look younger but I really can't believe these two are defense workers. Defense workers' kids maybe.
I know, all you have to go by it is written the negative.
[He's old enough to smoke! - Dave]
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