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As the Great Depression took hold of America, the people living and migrating seek the American dream i.e. job security, instead they experienced hard times. Their reality was to what was to come was not the reality these additional pictures depict. Ton's of people were homeless, and shacked up as to provide shelter. The images also give the idea as to how landlords capitalized on small spaces housing plenty, sometimes without proper sanitation systems; a tenement situation, divided to house. This site relates to the image of Allie Burroughs, because it shows that much of America experienced this aged look due to the Great Depression, where the government missed other areas that needed economic help; and people in the south to me suffered the most. The tenement situation, also relates to what the Burroughs living situation. In addition, Allie and other women in this era, could have faced more inequality, like rape due to overcrowding. Eric Lott would explain this as the class structures that formed with the onset of the new economic system as a result, rather than a cause, of the historical events that led up to it, hence my other post of labeling Allie Burroughs as a hillbilly. Heidi Beckles