Youngstown Depression Gardens Photographs   Save
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Description: Two 8.5" by 11" (21.6 by 27.9 cm) image show Youngstown Sheet and Tube employees at work in the Depression Gardens. The company encouraged workers to create and maintain vegetable gardens as a means of self-sufficiency during the economic depression of the 1930s. Employees living in Buckeye Land Company housing (a subsidiary of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company) were given the opportunity to apply for garden space for $2.00 per garden. For that price the company would plow, harrow, and lime the ground. Seed and fertilizer would be made available at low prices. Spaces were made available close to the Highview, Overlook and Blackburn neighborhoods. The mill is visible in the background in both images. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1628_1919951_012
Subjects: Business and Labor; Daily Life; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Gardens; Gardening
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)