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[Women buying produce from an automobile huckster at a federal works agency defense housing project, San Diego, Calif.] – Antique Wall Art

[Women buying produce from an automobile huckster at a federal works agency defense housing project, San Diego, Calif.], [1942?] — historic photograph
[Women buying produce from an automobile huckster at a federal works agency defense housing project, San Diego, Calif.], [1942?]. Historic photograph from the Automobiles collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Women buying produce from an automobile huckster at a federal works agency defense housing project, San Diego, Calif.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Women buying produce from an automobile huckster at a federal works agency defense housing project, San Diego, Calif.]

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Women shopping from a produce truck, or "auto huckster," at a federal defense housing project in San Diego make this scene distinct from the many wartime photographs of factories and workers. Russell Lee, a photographer for the Farm Security Administration and later the Office of War Information, documented home-front life across the country in the early 1940s. San Diego's rapid growth from shipbuilding and aircraft work crowded newly built housing for war workers, often far from established stores. Mobile vendors like this one filled that gap, bringing fresh food to residents' doorsteps. The record's 1942 date is uncertain, so the year is best read as approximate.

Created / published[1942?]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhotoprint by Russell Lee. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Markets; Auto--; WWII.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,155 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149593

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