The world is about to get a glimpse of what America looked like during its transition from the Great Depression, to World War II.
The National Archives and Records Administration is just over a month away from the unsealing of 1940 census documents, which will be opened to the public on April 2, at 9 a.m., and will immediately be available on the National Archives web site, www.archives.gov/.
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