These Depression Era Makeshift Kitchens Will Make You Grateful for Your Modern Appliances!
They had to make do with cooking wherever they landed.
During the Great Depression, many families traveled the country in search of itinerant work or on their way to more fertile lands during the Dust Bowl. Folks took what they could get when they could get it, which meant eating along the roadside or staying in a makeshift camp.
The makeshift kitchens of the 1930s were captured on film by the Farm Security Administration, documented as part of the growing phenomenon of families traveling the country in search of crops to be harvested, land to be sowed, and any kind of livable wage.
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