This trailer, hastily built of junk, is home to three Richmond Shipyard workers, one of whom sleeps in the lean-to at the left. "We couldn't rent a place," they said. "We're trying to build, but we can't get material." One water faucet, a block away, serves 17 such "homes." Privies are built of old boxes. There are no baths.

Selections From the Henry J. Kaiser Pictorial Collection, 1941-1946

BANC PIC 1983.019:059--PIC

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