[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Columbus, Georgia. Metal shelters and tents of Army men and construction workers in backyard of W.T. Mullis, who owns home and property and has grocery store on main highway about three miles from Fort Benning. For the shelters they pay ten dollars a month. For trailer or tent space two dollars a week. Mrs. R.M. Davis, whose husband is a First Sergeant at Fort Benning, now occupying metal shelter, used to live in hallway space in local home nearby and paid twenty dollars a month and had to furnish own bed. Her neighbor said "I hope these real estate men and people in Columbus who are charging so much and stealing from the poor people have to sit in their empty homes and shacks and starve when the defense program is over and finished."]

Collection:: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives
Title:: [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Columbus, Georgia. Metal shelters and tents of Army men and construction workers in backyard of W.T. Mullis, who owns home and property and has grocery store on main highway about three miles from Fort Benning. For the shelters they pay ten dollars a month. For trailer or tent space two dollars a week. Mrs. R.M. Davis, whose husband is a First Sergeant at Fort Benning, now occupying metal shelter, used to live in hallway space in local home nearby and paid twenty dollars a month and had to furnish own bed. Her neighbor said "I hope these real estate men and people in Columbus who are charging so much and stealing from the poor people have to sit in their empty homes and shacks and starve when the defense program is over and finished."]
Creator:: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990
Date of Original:: 1940-12
Subject:: United States. Farm Service Agency
Location:: United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
Medium:: black-and-white negatives
safety film negatives
Type:: Still Image
Description:: Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.)
Appears to be related to negative LC-USF34-056461-D https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017805814/
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Temp. note: usf34batch6
Local Identifier:: 2017805815
fsa 8c14230 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8c14230
fsa2000036997/PP
Metadata URL:: https://loc.gov/item/2017805815
Language:: eng
Extent:: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.
Original Collection:: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress
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