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#115 A boxcar from France’s “Merci Train,” loaded with gifts for Virginians, arrived in Richmond, 1949.

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#115 A boxcar from France’s “Merci Train,” loaded with gifts for Virginians, arrived in Richmond, 1949.

What Richmond, Virigina looked like in the 1940s Through Historic Photographs

#115 A boxcar from France’s “Merci Train,” loaded with gifts for Virginians, arrived in Richmond, 1949.

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←#114 The Freedom Train stopped in Richmond at Allen Avenue and West Broad Street, 1947.
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