Original 1947 AP Wire Photo showing former GI Kenneth I. Messer, his wife, and their young children living out of a 10-year-old sedan in Charleston, West Virginia while searching for a place to live after driving from Bridgeport, Connecticut. The image is mounted on black archival paper with the original wire caption separately mounted below the photograph. Overall measurements are approximately 8 x 7⅜ inches. Displays typical newsroom handling wear, including tape securing the photo and caption to the mount along with light edge and corner wear. A compelling postwar housing crisis and Americana image from 1947. From the archive of a Pittsburgh area newspaper.
