Mrs. Myrtle Higgins of Leraysville, New York, with some of the belongings she has packed preparing to move out of the area being taken over by the Army. Mrs. Higgins has been selling eggs and berries in the town and her son added to her two dollar a week income by working in a junk yard in Watertown, New York. She is moving to a farm near Mexico, New York

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Rent control. Protection for the home front. But the hardest hit were the inhabitants themselves. In a Texas town, an old widowed lady living on a small pension had paid $17.50 a month for a small home in which she and her daughter had lived for years. Threatened with a rent boost to $50, she wrote to the White House: "Please Mr. President, can't you stop this unlawful raising of rent on us? We don't even have $50 a month."

Mrs. Myrtle Higgins of Leraysville, New York, with some of the belongings she has packed preparing to move out of the area being taken over by the Army. Mrs. Higgins has been selling eggs and berries in the town and her son added to her two dollar a week income by working in a junk yard in Watertown, New York. She is moving to a farm near Mexico, New York

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Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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01/01/1941

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Delano, Jack, photographer

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jefferson county

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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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