Civil Rights & Labor History Consortium | Photo and Document Gallery | Great Depression in Washington State | Dorothea Lange in Yakima Valley | Home of family living in Sumac Park, shacktown community outside of Yakima.

Home of family living in Sumac Park, shacktown community outside of Yakima, Washington. Father is ill and unable to work. They are paying for land (three hundred and fifty dollars) at rate of seven dollars a month. Photograph from the Library of Congress American Memory collection for the Great Depression in Washington State Project.

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