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TitlePicture of Dorothea's House.
Date Created1914
DescriptionDorothea's House was an Italian settlement house located in Princeton, New Jersey.
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TitleInterior of pre-fab house dining room
Date Created1953-02-04
DescriptionAn interior of one of the newly built Gunnison Houses
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleTyped transcript of letter to Helen Sater, U.S. Dept. of Labor, November 6, 1943
Date Created1943-11-06
DescriptionIn this letter, a white woman residing at Seabrook writes that although she and other workers had been promised free housing at Seabrook, the company was now attempting to charge them. The company's...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleLetter from Mary Dyckman to NJ Dept of Health, August 11, 1944
Date Created1944-08-11
DescriptionA letter from Mary Dyckman, President of the New Jersey Consumers League, to Dr. Julius Levy, a state health official, details sanitary conditions at the camps and notes racial discrimination in the...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Wash day. In the near future the camp will have a completely modern laundry unit
Date Created1942-07
DescriptionSpecial laundry stations were created by the FSA at Big Oaks, and were served by pumped-in cold water.
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Prefabricated houses, made from materials not affected by wartime shortages, at the camp
Date Created1942-06
DescriptionToilets installed over pits were among the many sanitary concerns that surrounded living conditions in the migrant labor camps. Visitors to the camp commented on the unbearable smell that emanated...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Water is piped conveniently through the camp
Date Created1942-06
DescriptionPumps like the one featured here were the sole source of water at the FSA camp. Access to uncontaminated water posed another concern to reformers.
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Single men live in the tents; families live in the houses
Date Created1942-06
DescriptionTent housing at the FSA migrant labor camp was occupied mainly by black workers from the U.S. South. These workers typically received the worst housing accommodations.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleJob News
Date Created1960
DescriptionThis broadside published by a state employment service advertizes for migrant farm workers to pick fruit in North Jersey orchards.