Creator: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 / Location: United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus / Holding Institution: Library of Congress - Digital Library of Georgia Search Results

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Creator Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 Location United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus Holding Institution Library of Congress

1. Army men's new homes in Pine Woods on outskirts of Columbus, Georgia, near Fort Benning

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. Barbecue stand near Fort Benning, 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

3. 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

4. Cartoon taken from front page of Columbus, Georgia newspaper (Free Press), Sunday, December 15, 1940, indicating boomtown and prosperity because of defense construction around Fort Benning

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. 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

6. 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

7. Defense housing project, Newton D. Baker Village, under authority of housing commission of Columbus, Georgia. Construction delayed on account of heavy rains

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

8. Defense housing project, Newton D. Baker Village, under authority of housing commission of Columbus, Georgia. Construction delayed on account of heavy rains

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

9. Defense housing project, Newton D. Baker Village, under authority of housing commission of Columbus, Georgia. Construction delayed on account of heavy rains

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

10. Defense housing project, Newton D. Baker Village, under authority of housing commission of Columbus, Georgia. Construction delayed on account of heavy rains

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