Esther Bubley was one of the photographers employed by the US Farm Security Administration (Office of War Information) to record the county as it was between 1935 and 1945. In 1943 she photographed life in a Washington DC boarding house, home to Government workers.
Washington, D.C. A girl employed by the U.S. government, a new arrival at a boardinghouse, being greeted by her roommates
The landlady collects the rent
Washington, D.C. A radio is company for this girl in her boardinghouse room
Washington, D.C. Pearl Ginsburg refused to have her boardinghouse rent raised
Washington, D.C. This boardinghouse room needs a heater in the winter and a fan in the summer
Washington, D.C. A U.S. Office of Price Administration stenographer and a friend in their boardinghouse room
Cards in the lounge
Do not disturb
No men in women’s rooms nor women in men’s rooms
Washington, D.C. A boardinghouse philosopher
Via: Library of Congress
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