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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley. |
| Date: | 06 1925 |
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| Description: | View down littered back alley in Hammond's "Little Italy." |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Three young children standing in a backyard in very poor condition, including the lack of a lawn, exposed trash piles, and other litter. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Several houses along a dirt road. A person stands in the doorway of one house. "'Some roofs leak worse than others, but we all get wet inside when it rains... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Two containers of Coke bottles sit on the front steps of a house. The North Wall Street neighborhood houses 37 families in 22 buildings, with 30 hydrants... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A home with clothing hanging out to dry on a clothesline. The North Wall Street neighborhood houses 37 families in 22 buildings, with 30 hydrants, 24 toi... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "Twelve families, eighteen persons, share four outhouses." A window of a house is visible in the foreground, while an outhouse is located behind the home.<... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "This path from the alleyway to the outhouse is flooded when it rains — note the 'bridge' from the bottom porch step to the opposite bank." Griffin Alley... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a street in the “Five Points” slum district. |
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