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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
Washington, D.C. A demonstration of FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailers. Linking up for the parade
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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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 ( htt... More

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

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.

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...

Public domain photograph of a historic place in South Carolina, 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

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.

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

The oldest girl seated in the doorway of the house trailer cares for the family. Yakima Valley, Washington

The oldest girl seated in the doorway of the house trailer cares for t...

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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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A central utility building (right) with toilets, showers, and laundry facilities is maintained for every sixty trailers on the site. Each trailer, with its 25 x 50 foot plot of ground, is assured of privacy and plenty of sun and fresh air. Each trailer is equipped with a gasoline pressure stove, ice-box, davenport beds and gate leg tables. Each can accommodate up to four people

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A central utility building (right...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, 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 historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Production. War housing trailers. The trailer door is the last major assembly to be fitted to a war housing trailer at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. The worker in the background is installing clearance light fittings. The vehicle is now ready for the final paint job

Production. War housing trailers. The trailer door is the last major a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Middle River, a small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project (later administered by the National Housing Agency) for Glenn L. Martin aircraft workers. Trailer home of Mr. and Mrs. George Davis , an airplane worker at the Glenn L. Martin plant

Middle River, a small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Marylan...

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

[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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

[Hurricane Katrina] Pascagoula, Miss., November 2, 2005 -- Brianna Edson and her new dog Dixie in front of the travel trailer serving as their temporary home along with Brianna's mother Wendy (not pictured) at the Ingalls-Wright Emergency Group Site (EGS).  FEMA is using many methods to temporarily house Mississippi residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina.  FEMA/Mark Wolfe

[Hurricane Katrina] Pascagoula, Miss., November 2, 2005 -- Brianna Eds...

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.

Production. War housing trailers. A war housing trailer moves onto the assembly line of Western Trailer Company at Los Angeles. The chassis of the next trailer, in the foreground, is almost ready to receive sides

Production. War housing trailers. A war housing trailer moves onto the...

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

Production. War housing trailers. A war housing trailer takes shape at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Frame members have already been installed at the rear of this trailer, and the top is set in place. A new chassis is already in place at the right, ready to receive stringers

Production. War housing trailers. A war housing trailer takes shape at...

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

[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

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

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 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.

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

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

Trailer camp at Port Aransas, Texas. This is a fishing and summer resort

Trailer camp at Port Aransas, Texas. This is a fishing and summer reso...

Public domain photograph of a village, town, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Cupcake Queens bakery wagon (in an old Airstream house trailer) in Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County

The Cupcake Queens bakery wagon (in an old Airstream house trailer) in...

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

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 1-17-06 -- 13 FEMA travel trailers are ready to be hauled to a staging area from the train unloading area to help house Hurrciane Katrina victims.  The FEMA Travel Trailer program was designed to get disaster victims in safe housing.  MARVIN NAUMAN/FEMA photo

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 1-17-06 -- 13 FEMA travel trailer...

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[Hurricane Katrina] Biloxi Ms., October 4, 2005 --Emergency Temporary Housing Facility for disaster victims from Hurricane Katrina. FEMA is providing temporary emergency housing like these travel trailers in Biloxi, Mississippi.  John Fleck/FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina] Biloxi Ms., October 4, 2005 --Emergency Temporary ...

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Trailer camp, 6/4/37 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Trailer camp, 6/4/37 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tom Tom Herb Tonic trailertruck in transient laborer's cabin and trailer camp. Belle Glade, Florida

Tom Tom Herb Tonic trailertruck in transient laborer's cabin and trail...

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

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

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

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

Always many more Americans on the road, housing themselves in modern or homemade trailers, contrast sharply with an old Southern home. Monticello, Florida

Always many more Americans on the road, housing themselves in modern o...

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

Sunset Trailer Camp, San Diego, California. The majority of the workers who have come into San Diego are apparently living in trailers. The county passed stringent sanitary laws when migratory agriculture workers came into the section some years ago and these laws prevent the Hooverville type of settlement. Rent for trailer space here is ten dollars per month with electricity and sanitary facilities, including showers and toilets, furnished

Sunset Trailer Camp, San Diego, California. The majority of the worker...

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

Trailer home near Ford bomber plant. Ypsilanti, Michigan

Trailer home near Ford bomber plant. Ypsilanti, Michigan

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Each group of ten trailers in the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp at Erie has a "trailer service unit," water faucet, slop sink, and garbage pail

Each group of ten trailers in the FSA (Farm Security Administration) c...

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

Guest at Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida, washing his car

Guest at Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida, washing his car

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

Production. War housing trailers. The inside and outside of each war housing trailer is thoroughly checked before receiving okay for delivery from the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. These rolling homes currently sell for about twelve hundred five dollars, f.o.b. Los Angeles

Production. War housing trailers. The inside and outside of each war h...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Hurricane Katrina] Purvis, MS, December 13, 2005 - A FEMA employee inspects the plumbing in the kitchen of a FEMA mobile home before it is released to it's designated family.  All trailers and mobile homes are inspected before leaving the staging area in Purvis, MS.  Patsy Lynch/FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina] Purvis, MS, December 13, 2005 - A FEMA employee in...

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

Sign of trailer camp saying "No Vacancy." San Diego, California. These signs are frequently encountered in and near San Diego

Sign of trailer camp saying "No Vacancy." San Diego, California. These...

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

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 Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Line-up of trailers at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for defense workers. All trailers rent for seven dollars per week--rental fee includes electricity and water and use of laundry and all sanitary facilities. There is a fee of ten cents for twenty minutes usage of electrical washing machines. San Diego, California

Line-up of trailers at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for...

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

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a car. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a car. Office of War...

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

Trailer and automobile at Bradenton Trailer Park

Trailer and automobile at Bradenton Trailer Park

: 56312 ( http://56312 ) ..Local call number: c011446..Title: Trailer and automobile at Bradenton Trailer Park - Bradenton..Date: July 1949..Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 4 x 5 in...Series Title: Depar... More

Briny Breezes Auditorium: Delray Beach, Florida

Briny Breezes Auditorium: Delray Beach, Florida

Local call number: PC0908..Title: Briny Breezes Auditorium: Delray Beach, Florida ..Date: ca. 1960..Physical descrip: 1 postcard - col. - 9 x 14 cm...Series Title: Postcard collection ( http://www.floridamemor... More

[Hurricane Katrina] Biloxi, Miss., November 3, 2005 -- Curtis Lopez displays family photos found in the debris where their home once stood, to his wife Ann, granddaughter Olivia, and daughter-in-law Bridgett.  Four generations of the Lopez family now live in FEMA travel trailers, as do thousands of Mississippians displaced by Hurricane Katrina.  George Armstrong/FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina] Biloxi, Miss., November 3, 2005 -- Curtis Lopez di...

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

Scene at the auto trailer camp, Dennis Port, Massachusetts

Scene at the auto trailer camp, Dennis Port, Massachusetts

Public domain photograph of a car, history of automobile design, car model, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Camping Trailers, National Forest Service photograph.

Camping Trailers, National Forest Service photograph.

Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Reverend Bullard, preacher, and family with trailer home. Alexandria, Louisiana

Reverend Bullard, preacher, and family with trailer home. Alexandria, ...

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

Band composed of guests of trailer park. Sarasota, Florida

Band composed of guests of trailer park. Sarasota, Florida

Public domain photograph of music band, 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, California

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

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

A juke box near a trailer camp in Childersburg, Alabama

A juke box near a trailer camp in Childersburg, Alabama

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sculptor Joe Scarpa executed this playful piece featuring a futuristic Airstream trailer in Southside Park in Sacramento, California's capital city

Sculptor Joe Scarpa executed this playful piece featuring a futuristic...

Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Hurricane Katrina] Violet, LA,  January 16, 2006 - FEMA trailers are in almost every yard along South Lake Boulevard as homeowners work on gutting and remodeling their homes.  Hurricane Katrina flooded every structure in St Bernard Parish.  Photo by Greg Henshall / FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina] Violet, LA, January 16, 2006 - FEMA trailers are ...

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

Trailers for sale with construction worker and his wife as possible prospective buyers, along main highway from Alexandria to Camp Beauregard, Louisiana

Trailers for sale with construction worker and his wife as possible pr...

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

Trailer and car occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Burton (refer to caption #42581). Bath, Maine

Trailer and car occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Burton (refer to captio...

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

Good Humor man comes to trailer camp on Saturday afternoon. These children are sons of torpedo plant workers in Alexandria, Virginia

Good Humor man comes to trailer camp on Saturday afternoon. These chil...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Trailers for defense workers at Vultee Aircraft Plant. Nashville, Tennessee

Trailers for defense workers at Vultee Aircraft Plant. Nashville, Tenn...

Public domain photograph of train car, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Village on wheels. A caravan of 50 trailers, on its way to provide temporary housing for defense workers in Wilmington, North Carolina, stops for the night at the Hain's Post Trailer Camp, Washington, D.C.

Village on wheels. A caravan of 50 trailers, on its way to provide tem...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Inspecting FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailers

Inspecting FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailers

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

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

Trailer camp for defense workers of the Vultee Aircraft Plant. Nashvil...

Public domain photograph of Tennessee, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Middle River, a small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project (later administered by the National Housing Agency) for Glenn L. Martin aircraft workers. Trailers in their lots

Middle River, a small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Marylan...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Opening Christmas presents at Lake Seminole Resort in Largo

Opening Christmas presents at Lake Seminole Resort in Largo

Local call number: DGM0269...Title: Opening Christmas presents at Lake Seminole Resort in Largo...Date: December 25, 1957...Physical descrip: 1 slide - col....Series Title: Don and Gladys Marks Collection ( htt... More

Sign for a popular cluster of food trailers in South Austin, Texas, an artsy neighborhood below the Texas capital

Sign for a popular cluster of food trailers in South Austin, Texas, an...

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

[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

[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

U.S. Public Health Service uses trailer clinic in war against syphilis. Washington, D.C. Aug. 23. Ready for action the new trailer-laboratory just completed for the United States Public Healthy Service arrived in the Capital today for inspection by government officials. Dr. L.E. Burney and Nurse Fran Miller, (shown in the photo) members of the Public Health Service staff, will travel with the trailer which was built for use in a syphilis project in Georgia. It is equipped with an operating table for examination of patients, a sink, sterilizer, and other equipment needed to administer to sufferers of the dread disease. 8/23/37

U.S. Public Health Service uses trailer clinic in war against syphilis...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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.

White migrant mother with daughter in door of trailer home near Weslaco, Texas

White migrant mother with daughter in door of trailer home near Weslac...

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

White migrant mother with children in front of trailer home, Weslaco, Texas

White migrant mother with children in front of trailer home, Weslaco, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

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

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

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

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

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

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.

Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. McReynolds family in their trailer for workers at Burlington ordnance plant

Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) t...

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

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 -- 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...

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[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

[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

Trailer camp where construction workers and Army men are living. Camp Livingstone, near Alexandria, Louisiana

Trailer camp where construction workers and Army men are living. Camp ...

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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...

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Farm Security Administration trailers. Washington, D.C.

Farm Security Administration trailers. Washington, D.C.

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Trailer occupied by war department employee and wife from Pennsylvania. Trailer camp near Alexandria, Virginia

Trailer occupied by war department employee and wife from Pennsylvania...

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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...

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"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...

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