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01/07/2020 6:40 am
PIC: A trip back in the time machine, enjoy, living conditions,
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1936 a family living in poverty Elm grove, Oklahoma City.
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1936 child of tenant farmer McIntosh County ,Oklahoma.
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1936 Shanty Town Spencer Iowa during the depression.
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a squaters shack on Riverside Drive Upper Manhattan 1895
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1939 wife of a WPA worker living in the Arkansas River Bottoms.
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1909 little orphan in an instition in Pittsburgh.
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1936 share croppers huts in Atlanta Georgia.
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1940 country store in Heard County GA.
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country store and post office
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01/07/2020 7:39 am
Depressing as usual.
01/07/2020 7:47 am
Thanks, Dick. These photos give me insight into this country at just about the time my parents were married.
01/07/2020 8:08 am
I wish kids were taught about this era more in school so they might appreciate their advantages. They sure have almost no idea presently.
01/07/2020 9:48 am
Rural poverty is a blight on any society where it still exists.
02/07/2020 4:59 am
Yes Frank, I am very concerned about the societal and economic swing of the pendulum for our children and grand children.
04/07/2020 4:16 am
Can't help but wonder what happened to these people in the pictures, especially the children.
John Bono
North Jersey