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• libraryofcongress
• camp
• rural
• florida
• marion
• palmbeachcounty
• migrantworkers
• belleglade
• dirtroad
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• loggingcamp
• winter
• black
• housing
• walcott
• marionpostwalcott
• dusty
• clothesline
• wolcott
• marionpostwolcott
• poor
• 1941

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• The Library of Congress 5 photos & illustrations
• Cloyne and District Historical Society 4 photos & illustrations
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 2 photos & illustrations
• Powerhouse Museum 2 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration
• New York Public Library 1 photo / illustration
• National Library NZ on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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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.

Modern Buildings Tower over the Shanties Crowded Along the Martin Pena Canal 02/1973

from U.S. National Archives

• USEPA Environmental-Protection-Agency said:

  Enter photos of Puerto Rico today for State of the Environment, EPA's modern answer to Documerica's vision www.flickr.com/groups/ourenvironment

• marek wasyl said:

  Lovely composition

A man and woman outside a bush hut

from Powerhouse Museum

• 61 older comments, and then…
• Lú_ said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Architecture, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• Ian Sanderson said:

  They look so houseproud.

• AussieGold said:

  This is awesome! I wonder if any of these types of houses have been preserved by National Trust?

• Ian Sanderson said:

  AussieGold There are some in Kosciuszko National Park and the Alpine National Park in Victoria. Most are a little more substantial than this, but the principle is the same. Kosciuszko Huts Association. I doubt that this hut is in KNP. This is Horse Camp Hut, in the KNP.

• PhotoComiX said:

  a attempt in creative restoration
  
  "Home Sweet Home" by photocomix-mandala [?]
  
  
  details are more visible now but i could not resist to add a bit of sepia tint