"Health center, Tygart Valley Homesteads, West Virginia."
John Vachon, photographer. Created June, 1939.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection.

Others, such as this photo of a federally-supported health clinic in Appalachia, show the viewer the health work undertaken by government agencies seeking to conquer preventable disease and illness.

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