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Mr. and Mrs. Birch and family in trailer in Edgewater trailer camp near Ypsilanti, Michigan. Mrs. Birch and the children share the trailer with another family. Mr. Birch lives in a tent nearby with two men. Rent: six dollars a week for trailer space; five dollars a week for tent. Mr. Birch works at the Ford bomber plant

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Mr. and Mrs. Birch and family in trailer in Edgewater trailer camp near Ypsilanti, Michigan. Mrs. Birch and the children share the trailer with another family. Mr. Birch lives in a tent nearby with two men. Rent: six dollars a week for trailer space; five dollars a week for tent. Mr. Birch works at the Ford bomber plant

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near the plant, with wife and four children because of housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep days in a bed used at night by two of the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month and twelve dollars rent for the campsite

Child of defense worker from Flint living in Edgewater trailer camp near Ypsilanti, Michigan, where his father works at new Ford bomber plant

Interior of one-room cabin occupied by family of six, rented from fruit packing plant for one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

Tents which rent for five dollars a week to defense workers at Edgewater Park near the Ford bomber plant at Ypsilanti, Michigan

Child of defense worker from Flint living in Edgewater trailer camp near Ypsilanti, Michigan, where his father works at new Ford bomber plant

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

Mr. and Mrs. Wicks. Mr. Wicks is employed at the Ford bomber plant near Ypsilanti. They are from Flint, Michigan. They share a tent and a trailer with another family and single man in Edgewater Park near the bomber plant

Children looking out of trailer window. Trailer where C.E. Childre and family live in highway about three miles from Fort Benning. He is an auto mechanic and came up to Columbus, Georgia two weeks ago from Albany, Georgia and now works at Columbus Motor Company. They couldn't find any other place to live so had to get a trailer. They pay two dollars a week for space in W.T. Mullis' backyard. Never lived in a trailer before, don't like it, difficult with children and wet weather

Mr. and Mrs. Birch and family in trailer in Edgewater trailer camp near Ypsilanti, Michigan. Mrs. Birch and the children share the trailer with another family. Mr. Birch lives in a tent nearby with two men. Rent: six dollars a week for trailer space; five dollars a week for tent. Mr. Birch works at the Ford bomber plant

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

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01/01/1941
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Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer
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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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Ford Motor Company Long Beach Assembly Plant, Assembly Building, 700 Henry Ford Avenue, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA

Ford Motor Company Long Beach Assembly Plant, Assembly Building, 700 Henry Ford Avenue, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA

Boston, December 15, 1836. You are hereby notified that an assessment of five dollars on each and every share of the capital stock of the Western Railroad corporation, has been laid by the directors, payable to the treasurer, on Monday, the sixt

[Gymnasium, Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti, Michigan]

Room for maids who work in boarding house for single men who are mostly employed at the Consolidated Aircrafts. Notice the laundry tub in same room. The maids are paid five dollars per week and room and board. San Diego, California

Conversion. Automobile plant. A thirty-eight-and-a-half-ton Bliss Marquette No. 40 1/2-84 press, removed from a building that is being entirely cleared and converted to other war production, is lowered to a flat car for shipment to its new location. There it will form hood sides for 4 x 4 and 6 x 6 army trucks. The large I-beam spans placed through the die opening save dismantling and permit two cranes to share the weight, thus permitting quicker removal. Chevrolet Motor, Detroit, Michigan

Mother and child who have moved to San Diego from San Angelo, Texas. The house this family lives in rented for twenty-two dollars and fifty cents per month six months ago. The rent is now forty dollars. Two roomers pay five dollars each per month for use of room. San Diego, California

Michigan Central station, Ypsilanti, Mich.

Eugene Davis, gold prospector, Pinos Altos, New Mexico. He says he makes about a dollar a day placer mining and prefers it to five dollars a day in town

Mr. Akers, construction worker from Flint, Michigan now working at Ford bomber plant near Ypsilanti. He lives in a tent with two other men at Edgewater Park. Edgewater Park normally closes on Labor Day. This year it will remain open through the winter

Ford Motor Company Long Beach Assembly Plant, Assembly Building, 700 Henry Ford Avenue, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA

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

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michigan washtenaw county ypsilanti safety film negatives birch trailer edgewater camp edgewater trailer camp children share children share lives birch lives tent men two men rent dollars six dollars space trailer space five dollars works birch works ford bomber plant bombers female portrait woman photograph ford automobile plant ford motor company edgewater park united states history cabin railroads library of congress