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| Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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| Description: | A woman and boy are using "sedge brush" brooms to sweep a dirt yard as two women — possibly social workers or Agricultural Extension employees — look on. A... |
| Date: | 02 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house. |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | Two women and two young girls in a field with an ox-driven walking plow. Original caption reads: "This picture was not taken in Egypt nor India nor Africa ... |
| Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
| Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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| Description: | A woman and young boy sweep yard with "brush broom" while another woman with two children looks on. Two additional women, possibly Agricultural Extension e... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A family poses for photographers documenting living conditions. Beekman Quarters housed 81 people in 23 buildings. None of the houses in the neighborhood... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Two boys stand in a wet dirt road in the foreground. In the background is a house with a pile of objects in the yard, including an automobile, a door, and ... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "Two rooms. Six people, ages 33, 12, 8, 5, 2, 1. Wood heat. $12.00 per month. Carry water from neighbors front yard." Beekman Quarters housed 81 people i... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A woman and a child sit on the front porch of a house. This building houses 8 people in two rooms. Beekman Quarters housed 81 people in 23 buildings. Non... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "B. Shelly indicates hydrants which is sole supply of water to two households, nine persons ages 84, 76, 63, 41, 26, 12, 11, 5, 3. Boards are necessary to ... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A child walks across ditch on a plank walkway. On the street, children play with balloons while three men recline on the hood of a car. “Row upon row of ... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Four men gathered outdoors. Two sit on stoops of houses while two stand in the dirt pathway. More homes are visible in the background. There is a garbage o... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "The 69 year-old woman on the front porch lives alone at the bottom of this unpaved, unlighted, ungraded alley. The building next to her is empty. She hea... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "The hydrant (blurred right center foreground) is shared by 21 people in 8 families. No streetlights, though the alley is well over 100 yards long. The lan... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | In the foreground, a man with a cane on a porch looks down towards the camera. In the background, a man walks down the alley. "The alley is long, dark and ... |
| 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: | "A water faucet located at the top of the hill (the upper end of the alley) behind the boy is used by eleven families, 28 people, who live in the buildings... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Woman and four children seated in front of a makeshift tent that serves as their home. There is a washtub and washboard in the foreground and laundry hangs... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Young man and a dog in the yard outside a dilapidated shack in the woods that serves as a dwelling. Laundry hangs from a line at left. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Five children seated in front of a dilapidated shack that serves as a dwelling. Three dogs roam in the front yard. |
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