Folks used bushel baskets, wooden crates, or anything other receptacle to move their small goods. Sometimes they had so few belongings that they could be put into a cart and pulled by hand, like in the photograph below. It’s hard for most of us these days to imagine owning so little “stuff.”

Via/ Library of Congress
Via/ Library of Congress
Via/ Library of Congress
Via/ Library of Congress
Via/ Library of Congress
Via/ Library of Congress
Moving day means lots of cleaning. Here a woman is airing her pillows 1937. Via/ Library of Congress

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