WPA Photographs
Research Laboratory

Series Number

Project

Series Title

Description

Date Taken

Project Dates

OP #

Negatives

Contact Prints

8x10 Prints

Digital #

37.01

Research Laboratory

Southern Regional Research Laboratory

WPA workers will grade and landscape the forty acres of land on which the laboratory is located at 2100 Robert E. Lee Boulevard, construct curbs, gutters, walks & roadways, and extend drainage facilities. Project plans also call for the extension of 6,000 feet of water lines. The project is expected to require four months to complete and is estimated to cost a total of $98,000. Exterior.

4/23/1941



4

4


1; 2; 3; 4

37.02

Research Laboratory

Southern Regional Research Laboratory

Ground improvements to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's laboratory are well underway by WPA. These negatives show WPA workmen grading and filling a portion of the forty acre site and the roadway already under construction which has an eighteen inch sand fill to be topped with six inches of shell and two inches of asphalt. Exterior.

8/11/1941



8

8


1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8

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