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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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[Hurricane Katrina/Hurricane Rita] Baton Rouge, LA, October 1, 2005 -- Travel trailers in one section of a staging area are placed 12 wide by 36 deep, producing a sea of 432 trailers waiting for final inspection and documentation before they are used to house people left homeless by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.  FEMA will place tens of thousands of these units and mobile homes throughout the state in commercial parks, on industrial and private property and in group sites being constructed 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

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

Articles on bureau top of trailer home of white migrant. Weslaco, Texas

Articles on bureau top of trailer home of white migrant. Weslaco, Texa...

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

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

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

Wife of aircraft worker at the stove in her trailer home at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for defense workers. San Diego, California

Wife of aircraft worker at the stove in her trailer home at the FSA (F...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trailers for sale near Childersburg, Alabama

Trailers for sale near Childersburg, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

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

Guests of Sarasota trailer park outside their trailer home. Sarasota, Florida

Guests of Sarasota trailer park outside their trailer home. Sarasota, ...

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

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

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.

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

A couple of people standing next to a fence. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of people standing next to a fence. Office of War Information...

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

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

Night view showing street lighting system. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp, Erie, Pennsylvania

Night view showing street lighting system. FSA (Farm Security Administ...

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

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.

Middle River, Maryland. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project for Glenn L. Martin aircraft workers. Mrs. Emma D. Gaw, assistant project service advisor, serving dinner in her trailer home to her husband who works in the plant and to her daughter

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

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

Al and Roey Stickles eating a meal in their trailer home.

Al and Roey Stickles eating a meal in their trailer home.

: 70659 ( http://55586 ) ..Local call number: C002885..Title: Al and Roey Stickles eating a meal in their trailer home...Date: 1946..Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 4 x 5 in...Series Title: Department of... More

Near the Town Of Wisconsin Dells the Wisconsin River Channels through Deep, Soft Sandstone Cliffs, Cutting the Rock Into Fantastic Shapes, these Natural Splendors have Given Rise to a Booming Tourist Industry, People Come in Droves, Often in Campers and Trailers, Boat Trips, Shops, Bars, and Diversions of Every Kind Vie for Patronage in an Amusement Complex Extending 2 or 3 Miles Beyond the Town

Near the Town Of Wisconsin Dells the Wisconsin River Channels through ...

DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern

Maria La Vigna at Her Camper

Maria La Vigna at Her Camper

Maria La Vigna was involved in the production of "Omaha Indian Music: Historical Recordings from the Fletcher/La Flesche Collection." 1983 Omaha pow-wow. Macy, Nebraska.

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] New Orleans, LA, 1-17-06 -- Jessie Coleman and Matthew Wren hook a FEMA travel trailer up to be hauled to a staging area from the train unloading area.  The FEMA Travel Trailer program was designed to get disaster victims in safe housing and back on the road to recovery quickly.  MARVIN NAUMAN/FEMA photo

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 1-17-06 -- Jessie Coleman and Mat...

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

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 2-24-06 -- Dawn and Robert Jackson look inside their FEMA travel trailer as its being installed on their property.  The Jackson's will stay in their FEMA trailer while Mr. Jackson makes repairs to his house caused be Hurricane Katrina.  Marvin Nauman/FEMA photo

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 2-24-06 -- Dawn and Robert Jackso...

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

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, December 20, 2005 - One of several FEMA travel trailers equiped to accomodate wheel chair access at Roehm Park.  This site, built on top of a former ball field, hosts 50 trailers in all for temporary housing of displaced disaster victims.  Robert Kaufmann/FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, December 20, 2005 - One of severa...

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

[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

Autos and trailers encamped in a tourist camp used by migrant fruit workers, near Belle Glade, Florida

Autos and trailers encamped in a tourist camp used by migrant fruit wo...

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

Mother and child, white migrants, in trailer home near Edinburg, Texas

Mother and child, white migrants, in trailer home near Edinburg, Texas

Public domain photograph of family portrait, mother and child, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Trailers where workers live in backyard of private home in Starke, Florida

Trailers where workers live in backyard of private home in Starke, Flo...

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

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

A group of men standing next to a trailer. Office of War Information P...

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

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)...

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

Mrs. Nichols, wife of defense worker, and son, in their trailer home at Edgewater Park near Ypsilanti, Michigan. They are from Casa City, Michigan

Mrs. Nichols, wife of defense worker, and son, in their trailer home a...

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

Residents of trailer camp for Navy Yard construction workers. Portsmouth, Virginia

Residents of trailer camp for Navy Yard construction workers. Portsmou...

Public domain photograph of Virginia, 1930s, 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.

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

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.

Dormitory and utility trailers for workers at the Atlas Powder Company near Ravenna, Ohio

Dormitory and utility trailers for workers at the Atlas Powder Company...

Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

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

Childersburg, Alabama. When trailers become overcrowded, families build on an addition

Childersburg, Alabama. When trailers become overcrowded, families buil...

Public domain photograph of Alabama in 1930s, 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 ( id=... More

Photograph of Campers at Rollways Campground

Photograph of Campers at Rollways Campground

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

FIRE AT TRAILER CAMP IN BACK OF THE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING BUILDING DEB

FIRE AT TRAILER CAMP IN BACK OF THE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING BUILDING D...

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 6/7/1974 Photographer: MARTIN BROWN Keywords: Larsen Scan Location Building No: 500 Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

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] 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

[Hurricane Katrina] Biloxi, Miss., November 3, 2005 -- These three trailers are home to the extended Lopez family.  In all, six members from four generations live here now.  George Armstrong/FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina] Biloxi, Miss., November 3, 2005 -- These three tra...

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

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

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

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

Mrs. Avery Hamblen, young wife of a shipyard worker hanging out wash in front of her trailer, where the two of them have lived for the past year. They are now looking for a house because of difficulties of living in trailer during winter months

Mrs. Avery Hamblen, young wife of a shipyard worker hanging out wash i...

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

Garbage cans at trailer camp. San Diego, California

Garbage cans at trailer camp. San Diego, California

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

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.

One of the modern trailers parked in Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida. Mother is doing the family washing

One of the modern trailers parked in Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, ...

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

Construction worker and family living in trailer camp. Portsmouth, Virginia

Construction worker and family living in trailer camp. Portsmouth, Vir...

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 image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of campers, Washington DC. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of campers, Washington DC. Farm Sec...

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

A group of men standing in front of a trailer. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A group of men standing in front of a trailer. Great Depression FFSA /...

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

Children playing outside their trailer home at Sarasota trailer park. Sarasota, Florida

Children playing outside their trailer home at Sarasota trailer park. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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.

Migratory workers' trailer camp near Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Migratory workers' trailer camp near Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Line-up of trailers at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for defense workers. All the posts seen in the center are for electrical connections. San Diego, California

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

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.

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

Children of construction workers in trailer camp. Portsmouth, Virginia

Children of construction workers in trailer camp. Portsmouth, Virginia

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

In a trailer camp in Childersburg, Alabama. Many workmen and their families living here are either waiting for job openings or already have jobs at the nearby powder plant

In a trailer camp in Childersburg, Alabama. Many workmen and their fam...

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

Construction worker in his trailer home. San Diego, California

Construction worker in his trailer home. San Diego, California

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, 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. 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...

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

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 ( id=36 ) ..Repository: ... More

People, trailers and Coca-Cola machine at Airstream Rally

People, trailers and Coca-Cola machine at Airstream Rally

People, trailers and Coca-Cola machine at Airstream Rally,ca. 1962 ..Photographer: .Hupy, Art..Subjects (LCSH):.Airstream trailers.Travel trailers--United States.Truck campers--United States ..Digital Collectio... More

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 ... More

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

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.

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.

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Each defense trailer is located on a plot of ground 25 x 50 feet, assuring a fine degree of privacy and room for children to play. Standards set up by the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Division of Defense Housing for trailers provide a minimum overall length and width to assure the least possible crowding. The trailers are protected from fire and the city's fire bureau regularly conducts inspections. Manager Ackerman and the Lawrence Park Commissioners see to it that the trailer camp is well policed

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Each defense trailer is located o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Trailer camp for defense workers. Ocean View, Virginia. Outskirts of Norfolk

Trailer camp for defense workers. Ocean View, Virginia. Outskirts of N...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

General Electric worker, wife and child. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

General Electric worker, wife and child. FSA (Farm Security Administra...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Middle River, Maryland. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project for Glenn L. Martin aircraft workers. Mrs. Emma D. Gaw, assistant project service advisor, serving dinner in her trailer home to her husband, who works in the Glenn Martin plant, and to her six year old daughter

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

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

Messrs. Kaunetz [i.e., Kaunitz] (or Kauneel [name of company]), father and son, pioneers in auto trailers using yatch construction methods. Steam-bending elm. Bay City, Michigan

Messrs. Kaunetz [i.e., Kaunitz] (or Kauneel [name of company]), father...

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

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 ...

Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women washing clothes in utility building at FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

Women washing clothes in utility building at FSA (Farm Security Admini...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

A black and white photo of a trailer. Office of War Information Photog...

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

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

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

Farm Security Administration trailers. Washington, D.C.

Farm Security Administration trailers. Washington, D.C.

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

Childersburg, Alabama. Trailer camp where the rent is three dollars a month

Childersburg, Alabama. Trailer camp where the rent is three dollars a ...

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

Middle River, Maryland. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project for Glenn L. Martin aircraft workers. Trailers in their lots

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

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

RVs have a small city under the freeway during the Mobile, Alabama Mardi Gras

RVs have a small city under the freeway during the Mobile, Alabama Mar...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a couple of campers, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a couple of campers, Texas, during Great De...

Public domain photograph of a village, town, 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 a historic place in Florida, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trailers occupied by torpedo plant workers and their families. Trailer camp Alexandria, Virginia

Trailers occupied by torpedo plant workers and their families. Trailer...

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

A black and white photo of people standing in a parking lot. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of people standing in a parking lot. Great Dep...

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

A black and white photo of an rv park, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of an rv park, Florida. Farm Security Administ...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, 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 U.S. 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 North Carolina, 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...

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

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp. Two trailers, one to be used by camp manager for living quarters and office, the other as a clinic and health center. Comprise part of the mobile camp unit. This unit will follow the workers from harvest to harvest, where emergency camps will be started

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp. Two trailers, o...

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 and car belonging to Paul Knight, construction worker at Fort Benning building new barracks. He pays two dollars for trailer space (only) in W.T. Willis' backyard, is from Stone Mountain, Atlanta, Georgia. He said the bad roads were one of the worst problems around there and agreed that things generally were bad and the government had better do something about it soon

Trailer and car belonging to Paul Knight, construction worker at Fort ...

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

General Electric worker from Alabama at dinner with family in trailer home. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Erie, Pennsylvania

General Electric worker from Alabama at dinner with family in trailer ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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