Mick Hartley

Hard times, documented by Jack Delano in Pennsylvania, 1940:

January 1940. "Buckets placed in room to catch water from leaky ceiling in a house in Mount Washington district. Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania."

January 1940. "Woman in dilapidated old house in the Mount Washington district of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. She is blind in one eye and her other one is going bad too. She expressed the hope that she would lose her sight completely so she could get some money from blind pension."
[Photos: Shorpy/Jack Delano]