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The Beginning of RV

In 1910, there were few gas stations, few paved roads, and no highways but this is the year that America’s leading historians cite as the beginning of modern RV industry.Created by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 2016
In the late 1910s, there were few gas stations, few paved roads, and no highways was a time that America’s leading historians call the beginning of modern RV. In 1920s people who traveled like this were referred to as 'tin can tourists'. As time progressed, trailers became attractive, comfortable and earned a new name "house trailer" in the 1930s and 1940s.
In the late 1930s, during the Great Depression, FSA (Federal Farm Security Administration) built trailer camps to assist childless couples and families of one and two children in moving in areas where new factories were​ built, and labor was in demand. In 2005, FEMA provided temporary emergency housing using thousands of travel trailers.
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Scene in an auto trailer camp near Dania, Florida, where 200 cars are encamped. This is one of Florida's higher class trailer camps, the rates being $5.00 weekly including electricity

Scene in an auto trailer camp near Dania, Florida, where 200 cars are ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Trailers for sale. Corpus Christi, Texas

Trailers for sale. Corpus Christi, Texas

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migratory packinghouse workers camp. No work, trailers for sale, near Canal Point, Florida

Migratory packinghouse workers camp. No work, trailers for sale, near ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Bryant in their trailer about two miles out of Bath. Mr. Leslie Bryant works in the shipyard. They have been living in the trailer for two months. They could not rent in Bath and although a trailer cost them almost as much as a house, Mr. Bryant feels that it is a better investment because they do not know where they will go next in search of work when this "boom" is over. Bath, Maine

Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Bryant in their trailer about two miles out of Bat...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jack Cutter and family. Have lived in the FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp about two weeks. They came from Indiana for a job in the General Electric Plant. Erie, Pennsylvania

Jack Cutter and family. Have lived in the FSA (Farm Security Administr...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. A demonstration of FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailers. Bystanders and police escort inspecting a trailer

Washington, D.C. A demonstration of FSA (Farm Security Administration)...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Playing outside trailer home. Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida

Playing outside trailer home. Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida

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

In a trailer camp of migrants working at Fort Bragg. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

In a trailer camp of migrants working at Fort Bragg. Near Fayetteville...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, situated a quarter mile from General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. There are 200 trailers here, occupied by childless couples and by families of one or two children

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers at night. Erie, Pennsylvania

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers at...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Washington, D.C. A demonstration of FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailers. Back of a trailer

Washington, D.C. A demonstration of FSA (Farm Security Administration)...

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

Many private homes in East Hartford, Connecticut are using all of their available yard space for parking areas for defense workers. Often trailers are sold there too

Many private homes in East Hartford, Connecticut are using all of thei...

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. War housing trailers. Paper replaces steel as material for trailer wheel wells at the Western Trailer Company's plant in Los Angeles. Here, a worker shows a finished wheel well ready for installation. It is made of successive layers of paper impregnated with a hardening solution. The finished wells are covered with an asphaltic preservative paint

Production. War housing trailers. Paper replaces steel as material for...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Cecil Patrick's kids going to bed in their trailer for workers at Burlington ordnance plant

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trail...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Childersburg, Alabama. Trailer camp where defense workers from the Dupont powder plant live. Rent is three dollars a month

Childersburg, Alabama. Trailer camp where defense workers from the Dup...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Photograph of Campers Setting Up in an Unimproved Area Near Butternut Lake

Photograph of Campers Setting Up in an Unimproved Area Near Butternut ...

Original caption: Campers set up in unimproved area near Butternut Lake public boat landing. Nicolet NF. Historic Photographs

Participants at Airstream Rally

Participants at Airstream Rally

Participants at Airstream Rally, ca. 1962..Photographer: .Hupy, Art..Subjects (LCSH):.Airstream trailers.Travel trailers--United States.Trailer camps--United States..Digital Collection: .Modern Photographers Co... More

[Hurricane Katrina/Hurricane Rita] Baton Rouge, LA, October 1, 2005 -- A driver waits for inspectors to complete the documentation of a travel trailer, the final step taken before it is taken to a site to house either an individual or family left homeless by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.  Many thousands of these units and mobile homes will be used to provide temporary quarters for residents of the state.  Win Henderson / FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina/Hurricane Rita] Baton Rouge, LA, October 1, 2005 --...

Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

[Hurricane Katrina/Hurricane Rita] Baton Rouge, LA, October 1, 2005 -- A caravan of inspected and documented travel trailers leave the staging area here and are destined to provide temporary housing quarters for some of the thousands of residents left homeless by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. FEMA's temporary housing program has thousands of travel trailers and mobile homes on hand in the staging area that are being readied for occupancy.  Win Henderson / FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina/Hurricane Rita] Baton Rouge, LA, October 1, 2005 --...

Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

[Hurricane Katrina] Gautier, MS,  November 24, 2005 - Carlos Comanclos, a FEMA employee, holds a box of pumpkin pies that were handed out to residents in FEMA provided trailers on Thanksgiving day.  Patsy Lynch/FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina] Gautier, MS, November 24, 2005 - Carlos Comanclos...

Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

A camper's bunk at Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Texas Hill Country near the town of Hunt, near Kerrville in Kerr County, Texas

A camper's bunk at Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the T...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The name translates as "Sea of the Woods" from the German. Camp Waldemar, an all-girls' camp, was founded in 1926 by Ora Johnson, the... More

Portable trailer in use in blind landings. Washington D.C. This portable trailer where all the equipment is enclosed can be easily transported to any position on the Airdrome so that the pilot can approach the field into the wind for his landing. All the beam control is dispatched from this trailer to the instrument in the cockpit of the plane while at the same time the pilot is in contact with the airport control tower. Photo shows the plane in a test taking off over the trailer in a test at the Airdrome

Portable trailer in use in blind landings. Washington D.C. This portab...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Preparations to Raise a Trailer House - Bureau of Indian Affairs

Preparations to Raise a Trailer House - Bureau of Indian Affairs

Public domain photograph related to native Americans, Reservations, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of people sitting at a table in a kitchen, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A couple of people sitting at a table in a kitchen, Great Depression. ...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of men standing next to a train car, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A couple of men standing next to a train car, Great Depression. FSA/OW...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tom Tom Herb Tonic truck in transient labor cabin and trailer camp. Belle Glade, Florida

Tom Tom Herb Tonic truck in transient labor cabin and trailer camp. Be...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Metal shelters, tents, trailers of construction workers and Army families.  Metal shelters rent for ten dollars a month, and trailer space is two dollars a week. Near Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia

Metal shelters, tents, trailers of construction workers and Army famil...

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Half a house is brought from the trailer factory in Michigan to the site at the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Fontana project in western North Carolina. A light truck is sufficient to transport the section. The section contains half a living-dining room, all of a bedroom, and most of the closet space in the house. A second section contains the

Half a house is brought from the trailer factory in Michigan to the si...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing next to a parked car. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing next to a parked car. Office of War Informatio...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Wife of defense worker hanging out wash in trailer camp on Mount Vernon Highway near Alexandria, Virginia

Wife of defense worker hanging out wash in trailer camp on Mount Verno...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trailers occupied by defense workers inside Alexandria, Virginia

Trailers occupied by defense workers inside Alexandria, Virginia

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a couple of trailers. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a couple of trailers. Office of War Informa...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Tents and trailers in pea pickers' (labor contractor) camp. Canyon County, Idaho

Tents and trailers in pea pickers' (labor contractor) camp. Canyon Cou...

Public domain photograph of American farm workers, countryside in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Construction worker of Kearney-Mesa and his wife have lunch in their trailer home. San Diego, Calfornia

Construction worker of Kearney-Mesa and his wife have lunch in their t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, situated a quarter mile from General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. There are 200 trailers here, occupied by childless couples and by families of one or two children

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Reading magazine beside his trailer home. Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida

Reading magazine beside his trailer home. Sarasota trailer park, Saras...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, situated a quarter mile from General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. There are 200 trailers here, occupied by childless couples and by families of one or two children

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr and Mrs. Herbert Smith camp at Apalachicola National Forest: Leon County, Florida

Mr and Mrs. Herbert Smith camp at Apalachicola National Forest: Leon C...

Local call number: C037366..Title: Mr and Mrs. Herbert Smith camp at Apalachicola National Forest: Leon County, Florida ..Date: September 1961..Photographer: Stokes ( http://floridamemory.com/solr-search/result... More

President Nixon visits Apollo 11 crew in quarantine

President Nixon visits Apollo 11 crew in quarantine

(July 24, 1969) President Richard M. Nixon was in the central Pacific recovery area to welcome the Apollo 11 astronauts aboard the U.S.S. Hornet, prime recovery ship for the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing mis... More

View showing area for camping at the Hillsborough River State Park: Thonotosassa, Florida

View showing area for camping at the Hillsborough River State Park: Th...

Local call number: COM00351 ..Title: View showing area for camping at the Hillsborough River State Park: Thonotosassa, Florida..Date: ca. 1970s..General note: The Hillsborough River State Park opened in 1938 as... More

A black and white photo of an old car, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of an old car, Florida. Farm Security Administ...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1930s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trailer home and truck of white migrant family, Weslaco, Texas

Trailer home and truck of white migrant family, Weslaco, Texas

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Child of white migrant worker in front of trailer home, Weslaco, Texas

Child of white migrant worker in front of trailer home, Weslaco, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Employee at General Electric plant getting ready to work. Trailer camp at Erie, Pennsylvania

Employee at General Electric plant getting ready to work. Trailer camp...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trailer camp where many defense workers live opposite Pratt and Whitney aircraft plant, East Hartford, Connecticut

Trailer camp where many defense workers live opposite Pratt and Whitne...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. A demonstration of FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailers. Coupling attachment of a trailer

Washington, D.C. A demonstration of FSA (Farm Security Administration)...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Trailers at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for defense workers. San Diego, California

Trailers at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for defense wo...

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Showers at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers. San Diego, California

Showers at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for def...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tenant at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers hanging up her washing. San Diego, California

Tenant at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defe...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Last year this camp averaged two trailers at a time. It now has about twenty-five trailers occupied mostly by defense workers. In or near Alexandria, Virginia

Last year this camp averaged two trailers at a time. It now has about ...

Public domain photograph of car garage, repair shop, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

John & Lizzie Wilson from Boston in Bradenton, Florida

John & Lizzie Wilson from Boston in Bradenton, Florida

Local call number: JJS1975..Title: John & Lizzie Wilson from Boston in Bradenton, Florida..Date: 1951..Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - b&w - 5 x 4 in...Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Collection ( id=... More

Photograph of Trailer Campers, National Forest Service photograph.

Photograph of Trailer Campers, National Forest Service photograph.

Original caption: Trailer campers. Sand Lake Campground. Historic Photographs Public domain photograph of forest, trees, US government forestry agency, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Hurricane Katrina] D'Iberville, Miss., November 24, 2005 -- Bobby Keyes starts moving his belongings into his new FEMA travel trailer home on Thanksgiving Day.  FEMA is utilizing various methods to temporarily house residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina.  Mark Wolfe/FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina] D'Iberville, Miss., November 24, 2005 -- Bobby Key...

Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

[Hurricane Katrina] Waveland, MS, 11-25-05 -- Sally Simmons stands in front of a FEMA trailer while holding a picture of what her and her daughter's former house looked like.  The house was washed away by flood waters during Hurricane Katrina.  Patsy Lynch/FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina] Waveland, MS, 11-25-05 -- Sally Simmons stands in ...

Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Two of many food trucks and trailers that serve the eclectic South Austin neighborhood of Austin, Texas

Two of many food trucks and trailers that serve the eclectic South Aus...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Jemez Mountain Trail - Campers at Battleship Rock

Jemez Mountain Trail - Campers at Battleship Rock

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Campers set up under green trees in the shadow of Battleship Rock. Location: Location: New Mexico (35.829° N 106.645° W) Status: Publi... More

Edge of the Wilderness - Campers on the Edge of the Wilderness

Edge of the Wilderness - Campers on the Edge of the Wilderness

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Campers relax at one of the many campsites located on the Edge of the Wilderness Scenic Byway. Location: Minnesota (47.447° N 93.606° W... More

Koreshan Unity family camping, Florida

Koreshan Unity family camping, Florida

Local call number:KOR0066...Title: Koreshan Unity family camping...Date: circa 1920s...Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 3 x 5 in....Series Title: Koreshan Unity Collection ( http://floridamemory.com/phot... More

A black and white photo of a couple of people, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a couple of people, Florida. Farm Security ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Trailer camp. McAllen, Texas. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Trailer camp. McAllen, Texas. Great Depression public domain photograp...

Public domain photograph of a motel, camp, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was no need for migrant labor to handle the citrus and vegetable crops in the valley, the local supply of labor being ample for this purpose. Most of the local labor is Mexican and the labor contractors favor Mexican labor over white labor, partly because the Mexican will work much cheaper than whites. One white woman who was a permanent resident (her husband was on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work  Projects Administration) said that the white people who lived in the valley, had no trouble with the Mexicans. The Mexicans were good neighbors, she said, always willing to share what they had. She said the white migrants who came into the valley and resented and misunderstood the Mexicans caused the trouble between the two races. Some towns in this section permit camping only in trailers. The charge for camping in tents is about fifty cents per week, including water, which in some cases must be carried four city blocks. Privies are tin, very bad condition. Garbage is collected only once a week, with large dumps of decaying fruits and vegetables scattered among the camps. Some of the white migrants in this camp were very suspicious of governmental activity, due to the use by south Texas newspapers of the term "concentration camps" referring to FSA (Farm Security Administration) camps

Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a refugee camp, migrant workers, 1930s, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Construction worker's trailer (home-made house car). He has a job at Camp Livingston. Alexandria, Louisiana

Construction worker's trailer (home-made house car). He has a job at C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Trailer camp opposite United Aircraft where many Pratt and Whitney workers live with their families, because of housing congestion in and near Hartford, Connecticut

Trailer camp opposite United Aircraft where many Pratt and Whitney wor...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1930s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Family outside their trailer home at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for defense workers. San Diego, California

Family outside their trailer home at the FSA (Farm Security Administra...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trailer camp where many defense workers live opposite Pratt and Whitney aircraft plant, East Hartford, Connecticut

Trailer camp where many defense workers live opposite Pratt and Whitne...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Trailer camp for defense workers at Vultee Aircraft Plant. Nashville, Tennessee

Trailer camp for defense workers at Vultee Aircraft Plant. Nashville, ...

Public domain photograph of construction site, excavation works, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Construction workers' trailer camp near Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Construction workers' trailer camp near Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trailer camp where many defense workers live opposite Pratt and Whitney aircraft plant, East Hartford, Connecticut

Trailer camp where many defense workers live opposite Pratt and Whitne...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1930s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

One of the guests at Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida, washing his car. He has named his trailer home "Loveless"

One of the guests at Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida, washing...

Public domain photograph of meeting, event, music festival, from Cleveland Museum of Art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

One of Jack Cutter's two children in doorway of trailer home. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Erie, Pennsylvania

One of Jack Cutter's two children in doorway of trailer home. FSA (Far...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailers at Washington, D.C. tourist camp

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailers at Washington, D.C. touris...

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

A group of people standing around a trailer, Washington DC. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of people standing around a trailer, Washington DC. Farm Secur...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Trailer camp occupied mostly by torpedo plant workers and their families in Alexandria, Virginia

Trailer camp occupied mostly by torpedo plant workers and their famili...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. War housing trailers. The top of a war housing trailer comes in for attention at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. High catwalks give easy access to the top as blue wadding is laid over the entire surface. The spongy softness of this material will compress under the final fabric top. The wadding covers all nail and screw heads and any possible rough edges, ensuring a smooth final job

Production. War housing trailers. The top of a war housing trailer com...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ranger with camper at Oleno State Park - Columbia County

Ranger with camper at Oleno State Park - Columbia County

Local call number: FPS1210...Title: Ranger with camper at Oleno State Park - Columbia County...Date: ca. 1958...Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 10 x 8 in..Series Title: Florida Park Service Collection ( ... More

Photograph of Campers and Trailers at Lake Glendale Campground

Photograph of Campers and Trailers at Lake Glendale Campground

Original caption: Campers and trailers at Lake Glendale campground. Historic Photographs

[Hurricane Katrina/Hurricane Rita] Baton Rouge, LA, October 1, 2005 -- A flagman waves a truck driver onward down a road past one of many fields packed with travel trailers and mobile homes now staged and being prepared for occupancy by individuals and families left homeless by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. FEMA's Temporary Housing Program can place these units on private property, in commercial and industrial parks and in group sites being developed by the agency.  Win Henderson / FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina/Hurricane Rita] Baton Rouge, LA, October 1, 2005 --...

Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

[Hurricane Katrina] Violet, LA, December 16, 2005 - These FEMA travel trailers are being set up on East Judge Perez Drive in St. Bernard Parish just east of the Violet Canal. The site will be erected on the actual west-bound lanes of the highway and will affect approximately a one mile stretch of the roadway.  Robert Kaufmann/FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina] Violet, LA, December 16, 2005 - These FEMA travel ...

Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

[Hurricane Katrina] Pass Christian, Miss., December 21, 2005 -- FEMA provided travel trailers placed on private property in Pass Christian amid debris and destruction.  Pass Christian is devastated by Hurricane Katrina.  Mark Wolfe/FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina] Pass Christian, Miss., December 21, 2005 -- FEMA p...

Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Car and homemade trailer on U.S. 101 near King City, California. Man and wife middle-aged, from Wisconsin. "Old Man Depression sent us out on the road ... You don't know anything about how many people are living in trailers till you 'hit' Florida.

Car and homemade trailer on U.S. 101 near King City, California. Man a...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Deluxe Kauneel (or Kaunetz [i.e., Kaunitz]) auto trailer. Bay City, Michigan

Deluxe Kauneel (or Kaunetz [i.e., Kaunitz]) auto trailer. Bay City, Mi...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Some of the 200 trailers encamped at an auto-trailer camp near Dania, Florida. This is one of the better trailer camps in Florida, the rates being $5.00 weekly including electricity

Some of the 200 trailers encamped at an auto-trailer camp near Dania, ...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trailers parked behind rooming house. Omaha, Nebraska

Trailers parked behind rooming house. Omaha, Nebraska

Public domain photograph of the 1930s, United States, cars, streets, John Kennedy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tourist camp, showing many modern trailers crowded together, some of the families remaining for weeks and months. Dade City, Florida

Tourist camp, showing many modern trailers crowded together, some of t...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mr. Luigi De Angelis, who works in Belair Construction job building defense housing project. He came from Lexington, Virginia and lives alone in trailer and pays two dollars a week for space and electricity in yard of local boarding house on highway near Fort Benning, Georgia

Mr. Luigi De Angelis, who works in Belair Construction job building de...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Trailer service unit" of water faucet and garbage pail is provided for every ten trailers at FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

"Trailer service unit" of water faucet and garbage pail is provided fo...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a couple of campers. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a couple of campers. Office of War Informat...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailers at Washington, D.C. tourist camp

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailers at Washington, D.C. touris...

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

Trailer camp for construction workers. Ocean View, outskirts of Norfolk, Virginia

Trailer camp for construction workers. Ocean View, outskirts of Norfol...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Family wash outside of trailer home. Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida

Family wash outside of trailer home. Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Space planning. In modern trailers, interiors are planned to provide the maximum in both comfort and efficiency. Shown here is interior of trailer which is part of a group being sent to provide emergency defense housing in Wilmington, North Carolina, while more permanent quarters are being constructed there for defense workers

Space planning. In modern trailers, interiors are planned to provide t...

Public domain photograph of North Carolina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Emergency caravan. To provide temporary housing for defense workers while more permanent quarters are being built for them, this caravan of trailers crosses Memorial Bridge, Washington, D.C., on its way to Wilmington North Carolina. Trailers are being used all over the United States to provide this type of emergency defense housing. This caravan of 50 is the first shipment of more than 2000 currently being constructed

Emergency caravan. To provide temporary housing for defense workers wh...

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Middle River, Maryland. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project for Glenn L. Martin aircraft workers. A road through the trailer colony

Middle River, Maryland. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing pro...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Campers at Manatee Springs State Park - Chiefland

Campers at Manatee Springs State Park - Chiefland

Local call number: FPS00897...Title: Campers at Manatee Springs State Park - Chiefland ...Date: ca. 1972...Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - col. - 5 x 4 in....Series Title: Florida Park Service Collection ( htt... More

[Hurricane Rita] Port Arthur, TX, November 16, 2005 - Carlos Armstrong, is interviewed by Christine Rappleye of the Beaumont Times, as his wife and daughter visit with CR worker Vera Newsome.  Trailers are one of a numer of alternatives FEMA provides to displaced homeowners.  Photo by Ed Edahl/FEMA

[Hurricane Rita] Port Arthur, TX, November 16, 2005 - Carlos Armstrong...

Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

[Hurricane Katrina] D'Iberville, Miss., November 24, 2005 -- Joann and Richard Drummond are excited to enter their new FEMA travel trailer on Thanksgiving Day.  FEMA is utilizing various methods to temporarily house residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina.  Mark Wolfe/FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina] D'Iberville, Miss., November 24, 2005 -- Joann and...

Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

[Hurricane Katrina] Pascagoula, Miss., November 2, 2005 -- FEMA provided travel trailers are sited on private property to make it easier for residents to chart their personal recovery from Hurricane Katrina.  FEMA is using many methods to temporarily house Mississippi residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina.  FEMA/Mark Wolfe

[Hurricane Katrina] Pascagoula, Miss., November 2, 2005 -- FEMA provid...

Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Scenes at the auto trailer camp, Dennis Port, Massachusetts

Scenes at the auto trailer camp, Dennis Port, Massachusetts

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Scene in an auto trailer camp near Dania, Florida, where 200 cars are encamped. This is one of the better trailer camps in Florida. The rates are $5.00 a week, including electricity

Scene in an auto trailer camp near Dania, Florida, where 200 cars are ...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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