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Passengers standing on a bus enroute from Roanoke, Virginia to Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. The landlady of a boardinghouse

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Washington, D.C. A boardinghouse rule forbids men guests to come into girls' rooms and vice versa

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Washington, D.C. Pictures of her husband decorate the dresser and mirror of this boardinghouse resident

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Washington, D.C. A boardinghouse rule forbids men guest to come into girls' rooms and vice versa

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Washington, D.C. This U.S. Office of Price Administration clerk, speaking of her boardinghouse room says: "The light looks like an angel when I leave the shade off, so I do so"

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Washington, D.C. A radio is company for this girl in her boardinghouse room

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Washington, D.C. A radio is company for this girl in her boardinghouse room

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Washington, D.C. Pearl Ginsburg refused to have her boardinghouse rent raised

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Washington, D.C. After dinner a bridge game goes on nightly in the largest room in the boardinghouse

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Washington, D.C. Pearl Ginsburg refused to have her boardinghouse rent raised

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Washington, D.C. Boarders often speculate on the identity of the owner of the house across the street. They like to think it belongs to the President of a South American steamship line

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Washington, D.C. An employee of the U.S. Navy Department laid up with a cold in his room at Dissin's boardinghouse

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Washington, D.C. Reading the newspaper aloud in a boardinghouse room

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Washington, D.C. Those who are not too modest save time by tripling up in the use of the boardinghouse bathroom

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Washington, D.C. A U.S. Office of Price Administration stenographer and a friend in their boardinghouse room

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Washington, D.C. The schedule for use of the boardinghouse bathroom is worked out so that each person has eight minutes in the morning. It is social suicide to ignore the schedule and cause a tie-up like this

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Washington, D.C. Listening to a murder mystery on the radio in a boardinghouse room

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Washington, D.C. The outside of a boardinghouse

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Washington, D.C. The proprieter of this boardinghouse watches the service at dinner

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Washington, D.C. Mrs. Mary Spangler, English teacher, listening to instructions for distribution of ration books at the Woodrow Wilson High School

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Washington, D.C. Feet of students at Woodrow Wilson High School

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Washington, D.C. Preparing sterile instruments for use in the dental checkups held yearly at Woodrow Wilson High School

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Washington, D.C. Writing a test in a health education class at Woodrow Wilson High School

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