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

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

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

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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Date

01/01/1936
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Contributors

Mydans, Carl, photographer
United States. Resettlement Administration.
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Location

Dennis Port41.65845, -70.12863
Google Map of 41.658445, -70.1286293
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Source

Library of Congress
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Copyright info

No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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