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Huts and unemployed, West Houston and Mercer St., Manhattan.

from New York Public Library

  • Peggy Archer said:
    This would be a small Hooverville. Do you have any photos of the large Hooverville in Central Park?
  • babbishm said:
    I find it fascinating that these people keep their art, and decorate their outside with the surplus.

Mt. Holyoke, Massachusetts - Scenes. West Boylston Manufacturing Company, 1936

from U.S. National Archives

  • Mik Morrisey said:
    I believe you have either got the wrong town or name for this building listed for this image. If it is indeed the West Boylston Manufacturing Company then this photo was taken in Easthampton Massachusetts. You have posted several corroborating photos such as the one of St. Brigid's cemetery, located across the river from this building, which leads me to believe that this is indeed the West Boylston Manufacturing Company. The West Boylston Manufacturing Company was moved to Easthampton from West Boylston Ma around 1899 when much of the town of West Boylston was demolished for the Wachusett Reservoir. It is one of a series of reservoirs that supplies water to the city of Boston. Too bad Hines didn’t photograph that project as it would have been right up his ally. There also are two references to Mt. Holyoke, but neither is a town. One is a college which is in Hadley Ma and the other is a peak on the Holyoke range. The peak is very close to Easthampton, being just across the Connecticut River, which might account for the inaccuracy. As a side piece of history Mt Holyoke is the peak depicted in Thomas Coles’ The Oxbow.
  • The Lost Kodachrome said:
    That's indeed Easthampton MA on the lower mill pond.

Gangs of men on relief work during the depression, 1930s, by Sam Hood

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Drew Wilson said:
    Unbelievable to think of doing this work barefoot. Sam Hood and the State Library of New South Wales are both great. For a video of restored photos including this one check out youtu.be/-nwiSKY54sc