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52 photos and 2 illustrations tagged shack, from 13 members of Flickr Commons.

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• libraryofcongress
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• house
• poverty
• rural
• marion
• walcott
• marionpostwalcott
• hut
• publicdomain
• 1940
• wolcott
• marionpostwolcott
• field
• florida
• palmbeachcounty
• trees
• smithsonianinstitution
• landscape
• migrant
• 1941
• queensland
• statelibraryofqueensland
• blackandwhite

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• The Library of Congress 29 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 6 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 4 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 4 photos & illustrations
• National Library NZ on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• British Library 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• NASA on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration
• The National Archives UK 1 photo / illustration
• Powerhouse Museum 1 photo / illustration

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Abandoned shacks, vicinity of Beaufort, S.C. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Laurel Phelps LaFlamme said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called ONLY SC, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group. 1939 may have seen some abandoned shacks in Beaufort - but wow- you should see it now. It's a charming place to live.

• dogsbylori said:

  This is Beautiful!

Farmers shack, Giru, Queensland.

from State Library of Queensland

• Wayne Hill said:

  He's got a gun. Honestly would probably be more concerned about snakes.

Shacks of Negro migratory workers, Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 4 older comments, and then…
• Jonathan Stiles said:

  These are basket-case Third World poverty conditions . . . there were apparently parallel universes going on in one country. One half (white) appears to be mass-producing aircraft with which to combat evil and tyranny abroad in Europe and Asia; the other (black) half are living in the evil of poverty and tyranny of discrimination at home. What can be acknowledged overseas as evil may be un-acknowledgeable at home?

• kayteego said:

  No kidding.

• Peggy Archer said:

  pleroma - in certain parts of the USA, there is still third world poverty today. It's much more startling in 2008 to see people living in squalor than it was to see this type of thing at the tail end of the Depression.

• Jonathan Stiles said:

  I was astonished when in the early 90s I came to the USA and saw this home grown degradation for my own eyes. Coming from Europe I'd only seen relatively positive images of American prosperity and power in the media: this was the can-do superpower that had landed men on the moon . . . . And yet it couldn't take care of its own people adequately.

• Ann Longmore-Etheridge said:

  It still can't. We're a first world nation with large third world areas.