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Hobbs Oil Field Workers
Photographer: Russell Lee, U.S. Farm Security Admin. via Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (PD)
Taken: March 1940
Caption: Hobbs Oil Field Workers' Trailers
Additional Description: The oil boom created a severe housing shortage, with workers staying in boarding houses, campers, "cot houses" and even tents.
Submitted: October 29, 2023, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p757277
File Size: 0.097 Megabytes

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