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Images

New Deal Network, http://newdeal.feri.org/

University of Virginia Special Collections, Alderman Library, http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/scdc/scdc.html

Shenandoah National Park, Luray, Va., http://www.nps.gov/shen/

Related Sites

New Deal Network, http://newdeal.feri.org/

American Memory Collection, Library of Congress, lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html

The Valley of the Shadow Project, http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2

National Archives and Records Administration, http://www.nara.gov