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Autoworkers' houses. These houses rent for twenty-five to thirty dollars and have stoves, but water is drawn from a commercial well. Flint, Michigan

Autoworkers' houses. Flint, Michigan

A black and white photo of a small house, Autoworkers' houses. Flint, Michigan

Three defense workers from Flint, Michigan, now living in Edgewater Park and working in the Ford bomber plant near Ypsilanti, Michigan

Family living in tent beside foundation of house which they are building themselves. Outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, where much cheap housing is going up

Detroit, Michigan. A section of a boiler on a flat car

House on Winter Street, Quincy, Massachusetts. Because of lack of parking facilities, people living in the vicinity of the shipyards are renting car space in their backyards and the lots around their houses for "fifty cents a week."

Street in slum area in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The land on which the houses stand rented from between eighty cents and a dollar a lot per month. Each person built his own house. They had to pay twenty cents per month for water

These women work in nearby packing house and live in company-owned one-room cabins. Rent one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

Autoworkers' houses. These houses rent for twenty-five to thirty dollars and have stoves, but water is drawn from a commercial well. Flint, Michigan

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Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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michigan genesee county flint auto workers strikes nitrate negatives autoworkers houses rent houses rent twenty five thirty dollars thirty dollars stoves water united states history library of congress
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01/01/1937
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Dick, Sheldon, photographer
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flint
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Library of Congress
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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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A group of men standing around a table, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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Wives and sweethearts of the striking auto workers. Members of the "Ladies Auxiliary." Flint, Michigan

Flint Creek Hydroelectric Project, Powerhouse, Approximately 3 miles southeast of Porters Corner on Powerhouse Road, Philipsburg, Granite County, MT

Ghost town three miles south of Canton, Pennsylvania. The thirty people now living here are all on relief

Chris Ament, on dry land wheat farm of Columbia Basin where he has farmed for thirty three years. "I won't live to get the benefits of the water, but I hope to be able to see it." Washington, Grant County, three miles south of Quincy. See general caption number 35

Odice Brock working in his garden. Flint River Farms, Georgia, near Montezuma

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense workers who each pay thirty to forty dollars a month rental

Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Buses bring students from miles around as the school covers an area of 496 square miles. Some children come as far as thirty miles to school in one of the seventeen buses, some of which are driven by seniors

Honey Brook, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Rocks removed from field by Morris Zook, Jr., FSA (Farm Security Administration) tenant purchase client. Bulldozer was hired at twenty-five dollars a day to lift out rocks

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Davison, Genesee County, Michigan

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michigan genesee county flint auto workers strikes nitrate negatives autoworkers houses rent houses rent twenty five thirty dollars thirty dollars stoves water united states history library of congress