Civil Rights & Labor History Consortium | Photo and Document Gallery | Great Depression in Washington State | Dorothea Lange in Yakima Valley | Family living in shacktown community, mostly from Kansas and Missouri. Rent seven dollars a month.
Family living in shacktown community, mostly from Kansas and Missouri. This family has five children, oldest in third grade. Rent seven dollars per month, no plumbing. Husband working on Work Projects Administration wages, Photograph from the Library of Congress American Memory collection for the Great Depression in Washington State Project. forty four dollars. Washington, Yakima Valley.
