December 1940. "Construction of Army training camps around Alexandria, Louisiana. East Side Cafe with rooms for rent, 'Soldiers Welcome,' on highway to Camp Livingston." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1941. "Children playing in Defrees Alley N.E. near the Capitol building. A basement room rents for 9 dollars a month; two rooms upstairs for 16 dollars; one bath and cold water in the hall for entire building." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

September 1941. "Cattlemen's bar and cafe near Union Stockyards. South Omaha, Nebraska." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1941. "Stockmen's and farmers' and truckers' hotel near Union Stockyards. South Omaha, Nebraska." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the FSA. View full size.

October 1941. Radford, Virginia. "Sunset Village, FSA project for defense workers in Hercules powder plant. Individual homes on land leased from nearby farmers. Son of defense worker gathering scrap lumber." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Admin. View full size.

        A scene last glimpsed here, but without the trolley.

September 1941. Washington, D.C. "Schoots Court [i.e., Schott's Alley] with Senate Office Building in background. Four very small dark rooms rent for fifteen and eighteen dollars per month with water and privy in yard. It used to rent for six and eight dollars. Frank Coles and his friend are sitting on the bench. He was a cement plasterer but has been on relief during the past year. He has frequent heart attacks and his feet and ankles are all swollen. Doctor advises a chicken and lamb diet, no pork or beef, but he doesn't even have money to buy fuel. He can't get waited on in a clinic or get to one. He waited from before 11 until 4 p.m. but still could not see a doctor. He has been in Washington since 1906." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1941. "Negro slum area near the U.S. Capitol, between D and C Streets off First Street S.W. Most houses have five small rooms renting for twenty dollars and fifty cents a month, with rear wood kitchen shed, cold water, outdoor privy." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

November 1939. "Main street of Wendell, North Carolina. Negroes on way to work in tobacco stem factory." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May-June 1939. Atlanta, Georgia. "Woodworking shop at FSA warehouse depot." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1939. Savannah, Georgia. "Negro grocery store." Last seen here. Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1939. "Negro grocery store. Sylvania Savannah, Georgia." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1940. "Street in Louisville, Kentucky." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1940. "Cotton carnival. Memphis, Tennessee." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1941. "Houses in old mining town. Leadville, Colorado." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1941. "Main street of Craig, Colorado. A new and thriving boom town in the Yampa River Valley." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.