100 Boardinghouse Image: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search}

1402 Massachusetts Avenue. Once a fine old home, now a boardinghouse. "Blight" in Washington, D.C.

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This old home on Massachusetts Ave. has now been converted into a boardinghouse, Washington, D.C.

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Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of a sign on a building.

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Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A man sitting on a bench in front of a store.

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A black and white photo of a hotel, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

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Boardinghouse, Alabama. Great Depression public domain photograph.

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Detail of boardinghouse. Birmingham, Alabama

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A black and white photo of cars parked in front of a building, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

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Mrs. Christine Berg, former boardinghouse keeper in early days of Deadwood, South Dakota, near where she now lives

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Three Kings Day. Wandering musicians carry a primitive creche from house to house and sing for pennies. In a students' boardinghouse, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

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A black and white photo of a large house, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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Closeup of miners' boardinghouse, Mohegan, West Virginia

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A black and white photo of two sheep laying on the side of a road, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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A black and white photo of a house, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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A black and white photo of an old house, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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A black and white photo of an old building, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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Old clubhouse (boardinghouse) Caples, West Virginia

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A black and white photo of a dog looking out of a window, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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A black and white photo of a wooden roof, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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Former miners' boardinghouse now inhabited by seven families, almost all on relief in abandoned mining town, Mohegan, West Virginia

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Boardinghouse, St. Paul, Minnesota

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A black and white photo of a man listening, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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Boardinghouse, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Migrant agricultural workers from Tennessee, Carolina, Alabama, Georgia living in overcrowded boardinghouse and working in packinghouses in Homestead, Florida

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Second Street boardinghouse, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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A black and white photo of a man sitting on a porch, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

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Father and son from Bluefield, West Virginia Both employed at powder plant. Radford, Virginia. In boardinghouse room which they share with four others

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Dinner table after dinner at Mrs. Jones's boardinghouse. Sixteen men live here. Men in background sitting in parlor after dinner. Radford, Virginia

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Carpenter employed at Hercules powder plant in the parlor of Mrs. Prichard's boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

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Men living in room at Mrs. Jones's boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

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Construction workers in boardinghouse room. Radford, Virginia

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W.W. McDaniel, rigger at Hercules powder plant, in his bunkhouse in the rear of Mrs. Pritchard's boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

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The boardinghouse in the company town of Swepsonville, North Carolina

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Out of state employee of Hercules powder plant in his room at Mrs. Sells boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

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View of Radford, Virginia. Nearly every private house in the city has become a boardinghouse

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Men in room at Mrs. Jones's boardinghouse. Six men live in this room. Three beds, pay eight to ten dollars a week rent. Most of them have families they left behind in Bluefield, West Virginia; Bristol, Tennessee; or High Point, North Carolina. They are carpenters, carpenters' assistants, riggers and laborers. They make sixty cents to one dollar and twenty-five cents per hour. Radford, Virginia

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Powder plant employee going upstairs. Mrs. Pritchard's boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

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Powder plant's construction worker in his bedroom at Mrs. Pritchard's boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

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Construction workers at Hercules powder plant in their room in boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

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Men living in room at Mrs. Jones's boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

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Crowded boardinghouse with cars parked outside. Radford, Virginia

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Mrs. Fisher has to set up a boardinghouse everywhere she goes to make ends meet, for she has a family of seven to feed. The small house they rent here has six rooms and they have six roomers. Others stay in a cabin built in the backyard. All use the single bath. Childersburg, Alabama

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

Washington, D.C. Morning mail in the front hall of Mr. Cracke's boardinghouse in the old Roosevelt home at 1733 N Street, N.W.

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

Washington, D.C. Morning mail in the front hall of Mr. Cracke's boardinghouse in the old Roosevelt home at 1733 N Street, N.W.

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Washington, D.C. Girl in the doorway of her room at a boardinghouse

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Southfields, New York. Interracial activities at Camp Nathan Hale, where children are aided by the Methodist Camp Service. The boardinghouse reach

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Washington, D.C. A boardinghouse rule forbids men guests to come into girls' rooms and vice versa

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Washington, D.C. After dinner a bridge game goes on nightly in the largest room in the boardinghouse

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Washington, D.C. Two girls looking at pictures in their room in a boardinghouse

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Washington, D.C. Those who are not too modest save time by tripling up in the use of the boardinghouse bathroom

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Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan runs a boardinghouse from six to ten girls working in war plants. Fixing lunches for them to take to work

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Niagara Falls, New York. One of the war workers living at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse entertaining a friend

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Washington, D.C. This boardinghouse room needs a heater in the winter and a fan in the summer

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Washington, D.C. Paying the rent at a boardinghouse

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Niagara Falls, New York. Elaine Colgan's bureau in Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse. In the mirror she can be seen reading a letter from home to her roommate, Alice. Girls live two and three in a room; pay eight dollars a week board. Receiving and writing letters is their favorite pastime

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Niagara Falls, New York. One of the war workers living at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse entertaining a friend

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Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan, who runs a boardinghouse for girls who work in war plants, sewing

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Washington, D.C. In a boardinghouse room

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A black and white photo of a man and a woman sitting on a bed, Washington, D.C. A boardinghouse philosopher

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Washington, D.C. This girl met her husband at the boardinghouse. When he was drafted, she moved back into her old room. His pictures decorate the dresser and wall

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Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan, who runs a boardinghouse for from six to ten girls working in war plants, fixing lunches for them to take to work

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Washington, D.C. An evening gathering in a boardinghouse

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Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan runs a boardinghouse for girls who work in war plants. Her daughter, Nan (right) nineteen, who works as a chemical operator at the Niacet Chemical Company is the youngest of eleven children and the only one unmarried. They are washing the supper dishes

Picryl description: Public domain image of cooking, kitchen, food preparation, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. A dresser top in a room at a boardinghouse

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. A girl employed by the U.S. government, a new arrival at a boardinghouse, being greeted by her roommates

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Washington, D.C. The schedule for use of the boardinghouse bathroom is worked out so that each person has eight minutes in the morning. It is social suicide to ignore the schedule and cause a tie-up like this

Photo shows Enid Bubley, Roselyn Silverman, and Bluma Horowitz at Dissin's, a boarding house at 2013 Massachusetts Avenue, NW that catered to "young Jewish people." (Source: B. Brannan, 2004)

Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan runs a boardinghouse for from six to ten girls working in war plants. She is the mother of eleven children, loves people, and feels that this is the best way to contribute to the war effort. Girls pay eight dollars a week, including meals; her daughter Nan pays twelve dollars

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

Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan making cookies. She runs a boardinghouse for girl war workers

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

Niagara Falls, New York. Elaine Colgan and her roommate, Alice, workers at the Bell Aircraft plant, share a room in Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse

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

Washington, D.C. In the hall of a boardinghouse

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Washington, D.C. The proprieter of this boardinghouse watches the service at dinner

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Washington, D.C. An employee of the U.S. Navy Department laid up with a cold in his room at Dissin's boardinghouse

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Washington, D.C. A U.S. Office of Price Administration stenographer and a friend in their boardinghouse room

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Niagara Falls, New York. War workers who live at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse having supper at 5:30

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Niagara Falls, New York. War workers who live at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse having supper at 5:30

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Niagara Falls, New York. Entertaining guest, playing rummy in the living room while others play Chinese checkers on Nan Hannegan's birthday at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse for war workers

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Washington, D.C. Reading the newspaper aloud in a boardinghouse room

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Washington, D.C. The upstairs of a boardinghouse

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Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan (right) runs a boardinghouse for girls who work in war plants. Her daughter Nan, nineteen, a chemical operator in the Niacet Chemical Company, and another girl writing letters

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Washington, D.C. The shower bath in a boardinghouse

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Washington, D.C. Pictures of her husband decorate the dresser and mirror of this boardinghouse resident

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Niagara Falls, New York. Entertaining guest playing Chinese checkers on Nan Hannegan's birthday at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse for war workers

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Niagara Falls, New York. Entertaining guests on Nan Hannegan's birthday at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse for girl war workers

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Washington, D.C. This U.S. Office of Price Administration clerk, speaking of her boardinghouse room says: "The light looks like an angel when I leave the shade off, so I do so"

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Washington, D.C. This employee of the U.S. Navy Department listens to the radio and studies drafting in his boardinghouse room

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