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Mobile housing--a trend. One of the many housecars under construction by homeless people who formerly lived in tents. California

Street and homes in "Little Oklahoma." Forty families in this group. Tents, tent houses, shacks, freight cars converted into homes

Drought refugees. Penniless Oklahomans camped along highway. Came seven months ago. "Can't make it. Want to go back. Ate up our car. Ate up our tent. Living like hogs." California

Housing for rapidly growing settlement of lettuce workers on fringe of town, Salinas, California. These houses are built by the occupants, most of them recent migrants from the Southwest

Type of house in Shafter camp for migratory workers, California. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. This is the first family to be selected by Farm Security Administration for housing

United States government camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration), Farmersville, California. Prefabricated steel dwellings "one step up from a tent" replace the use of tents in the newer California camps

Construction foreman in his trailer home. San Diego, California. He has lived in a trailer for years and says, "Heck, I wouldn't have a house."

Pea picker's home. The condition of these people warrant resettlement camps for migrant agricultural workers. Nipomo, California

Farm workers unloading their car and moving into tent in which they will live at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho. Tents are floored. The fact that sanitary facilities are available, hot and cold

Mobile housing--a trend. One of the many housecars under construction by homeless people who formerly lived in tents. California

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Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/05/1935 - 31/05/1935
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