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Shacktown: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 1:23pm.
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April 1940. Shacktown in Dubuque, Iowa. Many residents keep a cow or a few chickens. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the FSA.
Little Girl is Beautiful
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 4:34pm.
The little girl is just beautiful ~ the wind blowing her dress and her little striped socks. Mom standing behind her looks lovely, too. I hope she had a good life and was happy. I don't know why this makes me so sad, though. Wish I knew more about her.
Shacktown residents?
Submitted by Ben Brumfield on Fri, 12/21/2007 - 12:56pm.
My grandmother talked about a "slabtown" that opened near a mine in rural Virginia. It was called "slabtown" because it was built out of slabs, the cheapest kind of lumber that came from the sawmill, and its residents were prostitutes.
I wonder if this is the same kind of low-rent red light district.
Re: Shacktown IDs
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 11:00pm.
No names in the caption info. Actually there was no caption at all for this one. I got it from a nearby frame.
Shacktown: 1940
Submitted by joemanning on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 10:44pm.
Does anyone know if the people in this, and in other Dubuque photos by John Vachon, were identified by the photographer? If he did identify them, where can I find out who they were?
They took my chair!
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 9:59pm.
I have a chair that looks exactly like that one, except there's a part you can sit on. I knew it was old, but now I have an idea as to how.
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