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Hymn singing during evening services at city mission for homeless men. Dubuque, Iowa: photo by John Vachon, April 1940
a'bject. A man without hope; a man whose miseries are irretrievable.
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not.
They did tear me, and ceased not. Psalms XXX, 15.
Johnson's Dictionary, 1755
Corner of dormitory, homeless men's bureau, Sioux City, Iowa: photo by Russell Lee for U.S. Resettlement Administration, December 1936
Man examining ankle, homeless men's bureau, Sioux City, Iowa: photo by Russell Lee for U.S. Resettlement Administration, December 1936
Man in homeless men's bureau, Sioux City, Iowa: photo by Russell Lee for U.S. Resettlement Administration, December 1936
Corner of dormitory, homeless men's bureau, Sioux City, Iowa: photo by Russell Lee for U.S. Resettlement Administration, December 1936
Dormitory, homeless men's bureau, Sioux City, Iowa: photo by Russell Lee for U.S. Resettlement Administration, December 1936
General view of dormitory, homeless men's bureau, Sioux City, Iowa: photo by Russell Lee for U.S. Resettlement Administration, December 1936
Men reading in homeless men's bureau, Sioux City, Iowa: photo by Russell Lee for U.S. Resettlement Administration, December 1936
A card game in the kitchen of homeless men's bureau (for unattached men), Sioux City, Iowa: photo by Russell Lee for U.S. Resettlement Administration, December 1936
Meal time at the homeless men's bureau (for unattached men), Sioux City, Iowa: photo by Russell Lee for U.S. Resettlement Administration, December 1936
Men's dormitory at night at the homeless men's bureau, Sioux City, Iowa (for unattached men). Unemployment is the primary cause of their being here. This unemployment has been the direct cause of broken homes, through divorce and incompatibility. Most of the men are willing to work if they could find it. Average age fifty-two. Most of the men are from the urban districts: photo by Russell Lee for U.S. Resettlement Administration, December 1936
Photos from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress
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