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Alvin Sharpe, North Carolina
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many farm families lacked indoor plumbing during the Depression

water was drawn from an outdoor pump

people bathed once a week, in shared water that had been heated on a wood-burning stove Image
this is how homes were illuminated before the New Deal rural electrification project brought electricity to farms

inadequate, stinky, a fire hazard

big government works

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before Nintendo

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homeless man
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trying to sell the idea of social security

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wringer washer, one step above a scrub board
two steps above stones along a riverside
this woman would have heated water on a wood stove, then carried the heavy bucket outside

one gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds

she carried a five-gallon bucket; do the math

Depression
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Social Security records, late 1930s Image

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