Plumbers by Carl Mydans, 1936 Chinese A year and a half

A year and a half after construction begun

and a launching pad for the social

But during his life he was a colossus

Roosevelt's wide Eleanor assisted Agriculture Undersecretary Rexford Tugwell's master plan of the area intended to function as a cooperative community

Taken: 1882Location: Studio 37

Plumbers by Carl Mydans, 1936 Chinese A year and a halfABOUT THIS PHOTOGRAPH In the midst of the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Federal government conceived of three new experimental towns under the New Deal program, with Franklin D. Roosevelt creating the United States Resettlement Administration by executive order. Originally designated Maryland Special Project No. 1, the soon to be constructed town just eight miles from Washington DC from former tobacco fields, was named Greenbelt