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Title
Shanty Town near General Motors Plant
Creator
Crooks, Arthur

Institution
Kettering University Library, Scharchburg Arc

Subject
Automobile Industry

Subject
Flint, Michigan

Subject
Buick Motor Co.

Item Number
JI01h020

Relation
NULL

Type
image

Format
jpeg

Description
B&W photo of the shanty town that was built up around the Buick Motor Co. when the new jobs brought so many people to town that there were not enough housing for them. Tar paper shacks and tents became homes in Oak Park along the river.

Shanty Town near General Motors Plant

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