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The Recreational Equipment Checkout has multiple types

A black and white photo of a couple of campers. Office of War Information Photograph

The Recreational Equipment Checkout has multiple types

A black and white photo of a trailer in the woods. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a trailer and a truck. Office of War Information Photograph

The Recreational Equipment Checkout has multiple types

Family wash outside of trailer home. Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida

Family wash outside of trailer home. Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida

A black and white photo of two people sitting in front of a camper. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

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[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 4-9-06 -- Keith Anthony Craft cuts the grass behind his temporary home, he is the first person in 9th Ward to get a FEMA Travel Trailer. He is repairing his Hurricane Katrina damaged home. The FEMA Travel Trailer program puts temporary housing on the homeowner's property to help make rebuilding quicker and help keep the family under one roof. Marvin Nauman/FEMA photo

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 1-17-06 -- 13 FEMA travel trailers are ready to be hauled to a staging area from the train unloading area to help house Hurrciane Katrina victims. The FEMA Travel Trailer program was designed to get disaster victims in safe housing. MARVIN NAUMAN/FEMA photo

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 1-17-06 -- Jessie Coleman and Matthew Wren hook a FEMA travel trailer up to be hauled to a staging area from the train unloading area. The FEMA Travel Trailer program was designed to get disaster victims in safe housing and back on the road to recovery quickly. MARVIN NAUMAN/FEMA photo

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 3-3-06 -- Sheriff Marlin Gusman thanks FEMA Housing Officer Steve DeBlasio for 23 trailers that will house 23 Deputies and their families. FEMA has installed 48,000 Travel Trailers state wide to help house Hurricane Katrina disaster victims till long term housing can be provided. Marvin Nauman/FEMA photo

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 9-30-05 -- Houses were destroyed after hurricane Katrina came through the area and the levees broke. Some homes floated off their foundations and bumped into others homes or came to rest on cars. Many New Orleans residents are homeless and now rely on FEMA to help them though the disaster. MARVIN NAUMAN/FEMA photo

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 3-3-06 -- Sheriff Marlin Gusman thanks FEMA Housing Officer Steve DeBlasio at a press conference for 23 on site trailers that will house 23 Deputies and their families. FEMA has installed 48,000 Travel Trailers state wide to help house Hurricane Katrina disaster victims till long term housing can be provided. Marvin Nauman/FEMA photo

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 3-3-06 -- Sheriff Marlin Gusman and FEMA Housing Officer Steve DeBlasio cut the ribbon of the exclusive use trailer site for sheriff deputies and their families. FEMA has installed 48,000 Travel Trailers state wide to help house Hurricane Katrina disaster victims untill long term housing can be provided. Marvin Nauman/FEMA photo

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 2-24-06 -- FEMA travel trailer installers from South East Manufacturing install the sewer pipe vent on this travel Trailer. FEMA is delivering and installing about 500 Travel Trailers per day to help house Hurricane Katrina disaster victims. Marvin Nauman/FEMA photo

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 3-11-06 -- The new 199 Colomb FEMA travel trailer site in St Bernard Parish begins to fill up as disaster victims from Hurricane Katrina move in. FEMA is delivering and installing about 500 Travel Trailers per day to help house Hurricane Katrina disaster victims. Marvin Nauman/FEMA photo

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 01-07-06 -- Greg Bachaud gets his tools so he can repair his house, damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Many Hurricane Katrina victims are in FEMA's travel trailer housing program while they repair their homes. The travel Trailer program is designed to get disaster victims in safe housing and back on the road to recovery quickly. MARVIN NAUMAN/FEMA photo

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In the late 1910s, there were few gas stations, few paved roads, and no highways was a time that America’s leading historians call the beginning of modern RV. In 1920s people who traveled like this were referred to as 'tin can tourists'. As time progressed, trailers became attractive, comfortable and earned a new name "house trailer" in the 1930s and 1940s. In the late 1930s, during the Great Depression, FSA (Federal Farm Security Administration) built trailer camps to assist childless couples and families of one and two children in moving in areas where new factories were​ built, and labor was in demand. In 2005, FEMA provided temporary emergency housing using thousands of travel trailers.

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The Beginning of RV

In 1910, there were few gas stations, few paved roads, and no highways but this is the year that America’s leading historians cite as the beginning of modern RV industry.
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[Hurricane Katrina] West Golf Course, New Orleans, LA 9-26-05 Urban Search & Rescue teams from "Fairfax County Virgina Task Force 1" search door to door for people and animals. MARVIN NAUMAN/FEMA photo

Hurricane/Tropical Storm - Shoreacres, Texas, October 8, 2008 -- FEMA House Inspector Michael Lane examines one of the homes on Miramiar Drive that was damaged by Hurricane Ike. Inspections determine how much financial assistance a homeowner is eligible to receive from FEMA. Photo by Greg Henshall / FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 3-9-06 -- A FEMA Travel Trailer convoy heads down Highway I-10 towards New Orleans. FEMA is delivering about 500 Travel Trailers per day to help house Hurricane Katrina disaster victims. Marvin Nauman/FEMA photo

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, 9th Ward, LA ,11-01-05 -- Only residents and workers are allowed though this 9th ward security check point. The 9th ward is still without utilities. Hundreds of thousands of former New Orleans residents and buisnesses are displaced. MARVIN NAUMAN/FEMA photo

[Severe Storms and Flooding] Rosendale, MO 6-30-07 - FEMA Community Relations Specialists walk down a street looking for potential disaster victims. Community Relations Specialists are in the flood damaged area to let people know about Disaster Recovery Centers opening up and registering for FEMA aid that may be available to them under the Individual Assistance Program. Marvin Nauman/FEMA photo

[Hurricane Katrina] Pascagoula, Miss., November 2, 2005 -- A U.S. Postal Service Letter Carrier delivers mail to this FEMA provided travel trailer sited on private property. FEMA is using many methods to temporarily house Mississippi residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina. FEMA/Mark Wolfe

[Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding] Greensburg, KS June 11, 2007 - Work on the group site in south Greensburg is progressing rapidly. Plans are for as many as 350 units. Photo by Greg Henshall / FEMA

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 12-12-05 -- Jefferson Parash School teachers reach for their keys from the holiday tree. Jefferson Parish schools and FEMA team together to provide Travel Trailer housing for it's school teachers that are victims of Hurricane Katrina. MARVIN NAUMAN/FEMA photo

[Hurricane Rita] Holly Beach, LA, 11-16-05 -- Most of the roads at Holly Beach are unsafe for travel and must be repaired. This neighborhood of 500 structures was vanished by Hurricane Rita's tidal surge leaving little if any debris. Hurricane Rita left many people homeless that are asking FEMA to help them rebuild their community and get back on their feet. MARVIN NAUMAN/FEMA photo

Secretary Shaun Donovan in Baltimore, Maryland, [where he toured the Poppleton Apartments--undergoing energy-efficient retrofitting thanks to a $1.5 million HUD Green Retrofit Program (GRP) grant--and led a press conference highlighting the economic and environmental benefits of the GRP, funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Secretary Donovan was joined by Maryland Senator Ben Cardin, Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings, Maryland Secretary of Housing and Community Development Raymond Skinner, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and other state and local officials.]

[Hurricane Rita] Cameron, LA, 11-11-05 -- FEMA Base camp workers eat in the mess tent. FEMA Base Camps are used when there are no other resources to house FEMA & emergency workers. In this case the nearest lodging, if you can find a room, is 70 miles away on rural roads. MARVIN NAUMAN/FEMA photo

[Severe Storms and Tornadoes] Lady Lake, FL, February 13, 2007 -- A FEMA contractor tightens down an aluminum strap to secure this travel trailer sited at the Sunshine Mobile Home Park in Lady Lake. FEMA provides travel trailers as temporary housing to residents that can no longer live in their homes due to disasters. Mark Wolfe/FEMA

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