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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. |
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| Description: | Three Indian children pose outside their home with a large, white dog. |
| 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: | 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: | A small child is seated on a porch while a woman stands in the doorway. "Yards turn to mudd [sic] when it rains — children must play on broken and rotting ... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A family poses in front of their home. "This family has to stop using the back room to this house. What used to be a doorway is now part of a huge hole in ... |
| 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: | "Forty-two year old man indicates condition of these buildings." Beekman Quarters housed 81 people in 23 buildings. None of the houses in the neighborhoo... |
| 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: | Porches line a walkway. Two children and a man sitting on a bench are in the foreground, while a dog and a child are visible in the background. “Row upon... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Children gather in the foreground, while houses and yards are visible in the background. A woman walks along the dirt path towards the camera. “Row upon... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A group of children, several holding balloons, gather on the porch of a building near a debris-scattered yard. “Row upon row of dilapidated buildings, th... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A water hydrant stands next to a drainage ditch, while clothing hangs on a clothes like above. In the background, children walk away from the camera betwee... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Several children run down a dirt road. Houses are on either side of the road, and laundry hangs from a clothesline above them. The door visible to the left... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A woman and two girls look on as a water hydrant is turned on by the woman. "Two families, 6 people, share this hydrant." “Row upon row of dilapidated bu... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Two children look towards the photographer by a drainage ditch with buildings on all sides. Laundry hangs from clotheslines above. “Row upon row of dilap... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Children stand on the front steps and porch of a home. Many of the children are holding balloons. Laundry hangs from a clothesline on the porch. “Row upo... |
| 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 ... |
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