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Children eat at tables in a W.P.A. nursery school in Denver, Colorado; food includes cake and tin cups of milk.
Work Projects Administration (WPA) railroad construction workers in overalls and fedoras use a hammers and a crowbar to install rails at a switch on railroad tracks near Lowry Air Force Base in the Lowry Field neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a railroad signal and a culvert beside the tracks. The tracks were constructed to connect Lowry to the Union Pacific Railroad line.
African American soldiers in uniform and women laugh as they stand near, or sit on, a piano at a W.P.A. armed forces center in Denver, Colorado. The women wear dresses, one has on strap heeled shoes.

Works Progress Administration Photographs

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