Houses for Britain. Assembling pre-fabricated temporary emergency house of the type which it is planned to ship to Great Britian under lend-lease to alleviate an acute housing shortage in Britian due to bombings. This model house was erected at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. by the Federal Public Housing Authority of the National Housing Agency which will undertake procurement of the dwelling under a directive from FEA to whom materials for 30,000 units have been allotted by War Production Board
Summary
Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Temp. note: owibatch6
Film copy on SIS roll 20, frame 1240.
Tags
district of columbia
washington dc
safety film negatives
lot 2219
j sherrel lakey
photo
emergency house
model house
houses
great britian
war production board
office of war information
farm security administration
united states history
great depression
library of congress
Date
01/01/1945
Location
district of columbia
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html