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Georgia County Muscogee Medium safety film negatives Rights No Known Copyright

1. Bargain store on main street in Columbus, Georgia

Creator:: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990
Date of Original:: 1940-12
Collection:: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

2. 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
Collection:: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

3. Construction workers on porch of local boarding house on highway near Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia. They pay six dollars a week, several in a room. They are employed on Belair Construction job building defense housing project

Creator:: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990
Date of Original:: 1940-12
Collection:: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

4. Men on car by tents. Construction workers in front of tents. Names: William Allen Jones, Fort Benning, Paul Knight, Fort Benning, J.F. Goza, C.D. Brownlee and B.I. Juhan. For space only in W.T. Mullis' backyard they pay two dollars a week. Two of them are now working at Fort Benning and others the Williams Construction Company, building foundations for new barracks, got laid off couple of weeks ago for indefinite time. They all came from Stone Mountain, Atlanta, Georgia, where they worked on WPA (Work Projects Administration). Some have been here one month. One said "There's something crooked in this here job--some men have worked every day seven days a week and others get no work at all. It's a dirty shame and the government ought to know about these conditions and see what goes on. It's awful bad."

Creator:: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990
Date of Original:: 1940-12
Collection:: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

5. Trunks and boots in front of store window on main street. Columbus, Georgia

Creator:: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990
Date of Original:: 1940-12
Collection:: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

6. Water trough and Y.M.C.A. (Young Mens Christian Association) welcome sign in square in center of town. Columbus, Georgia

Creator:: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990
Date of Original:: 1940-12
Collection:: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

7. Children looking out of trailer window. Trailer where C.E. Childre and family live in highway about three miles from Fort Benning. He is an auto mechanic and came up to Columbus, Georgia two weeks ago from Albany, Georgia and now works at Columbus Motor Company. They couldn't find any other place to live so had to get a trailer. They pay two dollars a week for space in W.T. Mullis' backyard. Never lived in a trailer before, don't like it, difficult with children and wet weather

Creator:: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990
Date of Original:: 1940
Collection:: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

8. Modern House, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia

Creator:: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952
Date of Original:: 1939-04-27
Collection:: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

9. 902 Broadway, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia

Creator:: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952
Date of Original:: 1939
Collection:: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress

10. Alexander-McGehee-Woodall House, 16th St. 2nd Ave., Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia

Creator:: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952
Date of Original:: 1939
Collection:: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South
Holding Institution:: Library of Congress