Slossfield Health Center, Constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA)

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Description

The original caption for this photograph states:

“Slossfield health center – WPA has installed in various clinics throughout the state assistants who aid the doctors in their work of examining and treating patients who come to them. Colored girls are weighed and their temperature taken by the WPA nurses in clinic. Alabama, Birmingham.”

Citation

This primary source comes from the Records of the Work Projects Administration.

National Archives Identifier: 175739345

Full Citation: 69-N-15445; Slossfield Health Center, Constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA); 6/1938; WPA Information Division Photographic Index, ca. 1936–ca. 1942; Records of the Work Projects Administration, Record Group 69; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/slossfield-health-center-wpa/, November 12, 2026]

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