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Our Humble Abode: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 01/19/2008 - 4:35pm.
January 1937. "Two children of a migrant fruit worker from Tennessee, standing before their temporary home. This family of eight is camped in a field near the packinghouse at Winter Haven, Florida." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.
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Submitted by Bill S. on Sat, 04/17/2010 - 1:53am.
1936 was when I was born and don't remember much about the Depression but what would the kids today feel and do if they had to live like that just for one month instead of going through it for years like these poor folks had to?
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