Tenement kitchen and river view home

The Roosevelt Administration did an especially good job of documenting what living conditions were like for many Americans in the 1930s.

There was a time when living in poverty in America meant living under extremely basic conditions.

Tenement kitchen, Hamilton County, Ohio. 1935
Photo credit: United States Resettlement Administration

House and privy near the Ohio River, Hamilton County, Ohio 1935
Photo credit: United States Resettlement Administration

The Library of Congress online archive has additional photographs from this Hamilton County, Ohio series.