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[Children on row house steps, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 4 older comments, and then…
• Scott Greenway said:

  Does anyone know what that little cloth sign in everyone's window means? The one with the blue star surrounded by the red border? I think my mom told me a long time ago that it meant you could go to that house if you were lost or in trouble or something, but people don't have them anymore :(

• dagning said:

  I'm rushed with a feeling of "home" when I look at this photo....though I was born many years later and never lived in D.C. I have to keep coming back to take a peek into the past. I'm curious about the narrow pocket between the doors...is that a passage to the back of the building?

• Linda Causey said:

  I think the cloth sign in the window indicates that a member of the family is in the service.

• John Shirley said:

  The Blue Star Mothers of America was founded in 1942 The first meeting was held in February It was for mothers who had children in the war.. They still exist. www.bluestarmothers.org/history.php

• jdavis417 said:

  Title: But Granny, Superman already whipped Hitler! OR Birthday Without Daddy