Four men live in this small shack. Two sleep on the lower cot and two on the upper. The whole shack is made so that it can be loaded onto a truck, has no floor all. At present the men work at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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Four men live in this small shack. Two sleep on the lower cot and two on the upper. The whole shack is made so that it can be loaded onto a truck, has no floor all. At present the men work at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Names
United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Delano, Jack, 1914-1997 (Photographer)
Collection

Farm Security Administration Photographs

Delano, Jack

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1941-03
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: 043303-D
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Acquisition: Transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991
Content: Date and title from Library of Congress.
Date: 1941, March
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: Print Size: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
TMS ID: 29217
TMS Object Number: 043303-D
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 6aaa30c0-5e8e-013e-e864-0242ac110003
Rights Statement
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  • 1941: Created
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  • 2026: Found by you!
  • 2027

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Four men live in this small shack. Two sleep on the lower cot and two on the upper. The whole shack is made so that it can be loaded onto a truck, has no floor all. At present the men work at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1941. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/76584ad0-5e8e-013e-aa27-0242ac110003

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Four men live in this small shack. Two sleep on the lower cot and two on the upper. The whole shack is made so that it can be loaded onto a truck, has no floor all. At present the men work at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 25, 2026. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/76584ad0-5e8e-013e-aa27-0242ac110003

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1941). Four men live in this small shack. Two sleep on the lower cot and two on the upper. The whole shack is made so that it can be loaded onto a truck, has no floor all. At present the men work at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina. Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/76584ad0-5e8e-013e-aa27-0242ac110003

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Four men live in this small shack. Two sleep on the lower cot and two on the upper. The whole shack is made so that it can be loaded onto a truck, has no floor all. At present the men work at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina.