The Great Depression and the New Deal: Transient Division Newsletter from Macon, Georgia

Photos of Other Transient Camps

This image reveals what a dining hall at a transient camp looked like. Kitchens were often staffed by other camp residents. At Camp Macon men could earn a meal ticket by working at least five hours per day.1


This picture was taken shortly after the liquidation of the Federal Transient Program. Transient camps were often repurposed into labor camps like this one; accordingly, Camp Macon likely resembled the one pictured here.2


Here members of a transient camp chop up old sleds for firewood. Men often performed manual labor like this around the camp to keep it running.3 

Footnotes

  1. Russell Lee, Men in transient camp near Hagerman Lake, Michigan, April 1937, photograph, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., https://www.loc.gov/item/2017763932/↵
  2. Carl Mydans. Transient labor camp. Pere Marquette recreational demonstration project near Grafton, Illinois, May 1936, photograph, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8b28668/.↵
  3. Russell Lee, Members of the transient camp saw up old sleds for firewood. Near Hagerman Lake, Michigan, April 1937,  photograph, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., https://www.loc.gov/item/2017763924/.↵

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