![[Hurricane Katrina] Biloxi, Miss., November 3, 2005 -- Two oil portraits and an undamaged china platter are among the few furnishings Ann and Curtis Lopez could find after Hurricane Katrina demolished their home. Their four generation family is living in three FEMA travel trailers while they work their way back toward a normal life. George Armstrong/FEMA](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn10/L3Bob3RvLzIwMDUvMTEvMDMvaHVycmljYW5lLWthdHJpbmEtYmlsb3hpLW1pc3Mtbm92ZW1iZXItMy0yMDA1LXR3by1vaWwtcG9ydHJhaXRzLWFuZC1hbi11bmRhbWFnZWQtYmYwOTlmLTEwMjQuanBn/320/212/jpg "[Hurricane Katrina] Biloxi, Miss., November 3, 2005 -- Two oil portraits and an undamaged china platter are among the few furnishings Ann and Curtis Lopez could find after Hurricane Katrina demolished their home. Their four generation family is living in three FEMA travel trailers while they work their way back toward a normal life. George Armstrong/FEMA")
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[Hurricane Katrina] Biloxi, Miss., November 3, 2005 -- Two oil portraits and an undamaged china platter are among the few furnishings Ann and Curtis Lopez could find after Hurricane Katrina demolished their home. Their four generation family is living in three FEMA travel trailers while they work their way back toward a normal life. George Armstrong/FEMA
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Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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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