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These photos are in the American Memory collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II:  Photographs from the FSA/OWI, 1935-1945 . Click on the small image to see a larger one.

Washington, D.C. The outside of a boardinghouse.

Women war workers in a boarding house in Washington, DC

Washington, D.C. This U.S. Office of Price Administration clerk, speaking of her boardinghouse room says: "The light looks like an angel when I leave the shade off, so I do so".

Washington, D.C. In a boardinghouse room.

Washington, D.C. The upstairs of a boardinghouse.

Washington, D.C. The landlady of a boardinghouse.

Washington, D.C. Paying the rent at a boardinghouse.

Washington, D.C. An evening gathering in a boardinghouse.

Washington, D.C. Pearl Ginsburg refused to have her boardinghouse rent raised.

Washington, D.C. Reading the newspaper aloud in a boardinghouse room.

Washington, D.C. The telephone in a boardinghouse is always busy.

Washington, D.C. The proprieter of this boardinghouse watches the service at dinner.

Washington, D.C. Two girls looking at pictures in their room in a boardinghouse.

Washington, D.C. A radio is company for this girl in her boardinghouse room.

Washington, D.C. Listening to a murder mystery on the radio in a boardinghouse room.
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Washington, D.C. Pictures of her husband decorate the dresser and mirror of this boardinghouse resident.

Washington, D.C. A boardinghouse rule forbids men guests to come into girls' rooms and vice versa.
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Washington, D.C. Those who are not too modest save time by tripling up in the use of the boardinghouse bathroom.

Washington, D.C. After dinner a bridge game goes on nightly in the largest room in the boardinghouse.

Washington, D.C. This boardinghouse room needs a heater in the winter and a fan in the summer.

Washington, D.C. A clerk in the U.S. Navy Department reading in his room in a boardinghouse.

Washington, D.C. A new arrival at a boardinghouse, being greeted by her roommates.

Washington, D.C. Girl in the doorway of her room at a boardinghouse.

Washington, D.C. Laid up with a cold in his room at Dissin's boardinghouse.

Washington, D.C. Listening to the radio and studying in his boardinghouse room.

Washington, D.C. Morning mail in the front hall of Mr. Cracke's boardinghouse

Niagara Falls, NY. Mrs. Hannegan runs a boardinghouse for from six to ten girls working in war plants.

Niagara Falls, NY. Mrs. Hannegan making cookies.
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Niagara Falls, NY. Mrs. Hannegan and her daughter, Nan (right) nineteen, washing the supper dishes.

Niagara Falls, NY. Mrs. Hannegan fixing lunches for the girls to take to work.
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Niagara Falls, NY. Mrs. Hannegan 's daughter Nan and another girl writing letters.

Niagara Falls, NY. Elaine Colgan and her roommate, Alice, workers at the Bell Aircraft plant, share a room in Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse.

Niagara Falls, NY. Elaine Colgan's bureau. In the mirror she can be seen reading a letter from home to her roommate, Alice.

Niagara Falls, NY. War workers who live at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse having supper at 5:30.
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Niagara Falls, NY. One of the war workers living at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse entertaining a friend.
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Niagara Falls, NY. Entertaining guest playing Chinese checkers on Nan Hannegan's birthday

Niagara Falls, NY. Entertaining guest, playing rummy in the living room while others play Chinese checkers
 

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Boarding Homes for Women War Workers
 

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