Hey to Your Mama N'em

Shacks occupied by black migrant workers in Bell Glade, Florida.

Marion Post Wolcott, photographer

February 1941

Library of Congress

Backyard of a dwelling in a slum area near the House Office Building, Washington, D.C.

September 1935

Carl Mydans, photographer

Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Little girl in slum area, Washington, D.C.

December 1937

John Vachon, photographer

OWI/FSA Collection, Library of Congress

Apartment on top of the roof, 1950

Leonard Nadel, photographer

Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection

Girl next to house

ca. 1950 - 1959

Pitt County, North Carolina

The Daily Reflector Image Collection, Joyner Library, East Carolina University

Woman sweeping, slum home. Dwelling is a four-room substandard house with no hot water and rents for $25 per month.

Venice (Los Angeles), California, 1950

Leonard Nabel, photographer

Charlotte, North Carolina Row Houses, People on Porch, 1944

Rosalie Gwathmey, photographer

Smithsonian American Art MuseumGift of Mary and Dan Solomon in honor of Sandra and Marvin Solomon

Dining room of Negro family which is on relief. Chicago, Illinois, April 1941

Russell Lee, photographer

Library of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection

Hovel home of two Negro families, Washington, D.C. Near ice chest is the privy, although unseen in this picture. A recent relief visit accounts for the food on the table. 

September 1935

Carl Mydans, photographer

Library of Congress, US FSA/OWI collection

Three Young Girls on Bond Street in Brooklyn

New York, July 1974

Danny Lyon, photographer

Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA

Neds family near Southern Pines, N.C.

E.C. Eddy, publisher

ca. 1914