Straw privy of Mexican farmer near Edinburg, Texas. Photograph by Russell Lee, 1903-. Photo date February 1939.

Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USF34-032289-D DLC.

Adobe privy with windbreak. Old "Walking X" Ranch place near Marfa, Texas. Photograph by Russell Lee, 1903-. Photo date May 1939.

Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USF34-033293-D DLC.

Privy made of old automobile bodies, Nueces Bay, Corpus Christi, Texas. Migrant camp. Photograph by Russell Lee, 1903-. Photo date February 1939.

Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USF33-012014-M2 DLC.

Log privy on hemesteader's farm. Pie Town, New Mexico. Photograph by Russell Lee, 1903-. Photo date June 1940.

Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, Reproduction number LC-USF33-012741-M2 DLC.

Privy made of Purina Chow sacks, tenant farmer's. Near Sallisaw, Oklahoma. Photograph by Russell Lee, 1903-. Photo date June 1939.

Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, Reproduction number LC-USF34-033612-D DLC.

Double deck privy. Pennsylvania. Photo date between 1935 and 1942.

Suource: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, Reproduction number LC-USF344-007504-ZB DLC.

Privy at tourist camp, Shannon County, Missouri. Photograph by John Vachon, 1914-1975. Photo data February 1942.

Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USF34-064298-D DLC.

Privies at school for boys and girls, Denbigh, North Dakota. Photograph by Russell Lee, 1903-. Photo date October 1937.

Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USF342-T-030850-A DLC.

Privies along Mississippi, Saint Louis, Missouri. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, 1915-. Photo date January 1939.

Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, LC-USF33-003010-M1 DLC.

Privy in harsh winter conditions, Oswego County, New York. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, 1915-. Photo date December 1937.

Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USF34-026153-D DLC.

Steelmill workers' company houses and outhouses, Republic Steel Company, Birmingham, Alabama. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1903-1975. Photo date March 1936.

Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USF342-T01-008013-A DLC.

Outhouse in Ostrobothia, Finland

Source: Juuti Petri & Wallenius Katri, Brief History of Wells and Toilets (Tampere University Press, Finland, 2005). Thanks to Petri Juuti, Ph.D., University of Tampere, Finland.

Outhouse and clown at Labor Day parade with plea for buying of war bonds, Detroit, Michigan. Photograph by Arthur S. Siegel. Photo date September 1942.

Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USW3-008473-C DLC.

The ultimate port-a-potty, circa 2000.

Source: Unknown.

Politician's Outhouse

Source: Unknown.