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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The Franklin Terrace defense housing project at Erie, Pennsylvania is completed with spacious, wide-paved streets. Because of its size (300 homes are being constructed) the most modern road building machinery was used throughout. Here a street is carefully graded
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Credit lineDefense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The Franklin Terrace defense housing project at Erie, Pennsylvania is completed with spacious, wide-paved streets. Because of its size (300 homes are being constru. 1941-01-01. United States. Office For Emergency Management, Palmer, Alfred T.. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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