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Children of May Avenue camp pumping water from thirty-foot well which supplies about a dozen families, Oklahoma City, July 1939 (1/54)

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Children of May Avenue camp pumping water from thirty-foot well which supplies about a dozen families, Oklahoma City, July 1939

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Bad Karma says:

January 13, 2022 at 18:53 Copy Link of a Comment

Where was May Avenue camp?

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- Jasper Finn says:
  
  January 13, 2022 at 18:58 Copy Link of a Comment
  
  Just south of the North Canadian River and west of the meat-packing district.
  
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  - Alfred Bear says:
    
    January 13, 2022 at 18:58 Copy Link of a Comment
    
    I assume it has to be by the river, but I could be wrong.
    
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- Michael says:
  
  March 28, 2023 at 08:58 Copy Link of a Comment
  
  Before the river was straightened a bend of the north Canadian came through where the fairgrounds are today, during the Depression it was a massive homeless village
  
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