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Travel trailers as housing in the 1930s and 40s from the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection

Trailers on the move or being demonstrated

Caravan of Trailers for Defense Workers in Washington, D.C.

A demonstration of Farm Security Administration trailers


Back of a trailer

 

Coupling attachment of a trailer


 

"Westcraft home" prefabricated trailers

 

Western Trailer Company - Production of Trailers

Production — Western Trailer Company plant

 

Production — Assembly line overflow

 

Production — Making the floor

 

Production — Table-top jig for sides

 

Production — Paper wheel wells

 

Production — Finished wheel well

 

Production — Floor laid over a chassis

 

Production — Side assembly set in place

 

Production — Front end section

 

Production - Paper corners

 

Production — Top of a war housing trailer assembled

 

Production — taking shape, rear framing

 

Production — Sheathing war housing trailers


 

Production — Treatment of casein glue

 

Production — Masonite board is bent into position

 

Production — Outside finishing

 

Production — Onto the assembly line

 

Production — Assembly line

 

Production—Electrical wiring

 

Production. — Top sheeting paint

 

Production — Fitting the door

 

Production — Blue wadding on top

 

Production — Forced drying room

 

Production — Lacquering small parts

 

Production — High-grade inlaid linoleum

 

Production — Opaque blackout blinds

 

Production — cabinet work

 

Production - Sink board is secured in place

 

Production — Fifteen gallon water tanks

 

Production — heavy-duty stapling machine

 

Production — Plastic material made by a new process

 

Production — A water supply system

 

Production — Trailer accessories

 

Production - Quality check

 

Western Trailer Company - Transportation, delivery and setup

At the gate - war housing trailers, Los Angeles, California

Multiple duty for war housing trailer tires

 

 

Every tire is registered

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp

Tires removed

Heavy wooden sawhorse support

War housing—Lompoc trailer camp—The 200th trailer

 

 

Erie, Pennsylvania

Applications of prospective trailer residents

Defense Housing, Erie Pennsylvania

Sarasota Florida

Trailer images from Sarasota, Florida

Pride in keeping small gardens

 

Chinese checkers

 

Where's the wheels?

 


Sarasota trailer park

 

Three ladies sitting outside trailers

 

Washing his trailer


 

Road to Sarasota trailer park

 

Entrance to Sarasota trailer park

 

Reading "Life"

 

Family wash outside of trailer

 

Discussion


 

Reading the newspaper

 

Children playing outside their trailer

 

Children playing outside their trailer homes

 

Sweeping up

 

San Diego, California

Sunset Trailer Camp, San Diego, California

High school girl studying in trailer in San Diego, California

Bath, Maine

A Better Investment, Bath, Maine
 

Home made

 

Saving money "while the BOOM lasts."

 

Ypsilanti, Michigan

Two families share a trailer near Ypsilanti, Michigan

Beauregard, Louisiana

Trailer furnished for sale, Fort Beauregard, Louisiana

Fort Benning, Georgia

Children looking out of trailer window.

 

Alexandria, Virginia

Showers and toilets

 

Trailer of torpedo plant worker and family

 

Trailer of war department employee and wife

 

Trailer occupied by defense worker and family

 

Trailer camp project for Negroes


 

Children of defense workers

 

Utility building

 

Their own electric meter box