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| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "Roof leaks. Yard is too treacherous to play in or to hang out clothes. This photo was taken from the street as a tenant looked out the front door down the... |
| 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: | "Woodpile on porch. Dangerous steps and porch. Boards layed [sic] over mud for front walk. Two persons have one room each in their building. Ages 50 and 7... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | A girl fills a bucket at a water hydrant near a drainage ditch. Buildings are on either side, and laundry hangs from clotheslines above. “Row upon row o... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "This flush toilet is one of two shared by the 51 people who live in this slum. The other is an outdoor non-flush toilet shared by 14 people, 4 families. ... |
| 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 building, possibly an outhouse, with a woodpile behind it. In the background, two houses with porches are visible. "No roads or streetlights or sidewalks... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Two young girls stand near a water hydrant. "Hydrant placed on edge of steep bank. Used by 30 people in 9 families. Four of these families (17 people) live... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A wood pile is located near the front porch of a house. Outhouses are in the far background. 80 people live in 21 buildings in the Taylor Alley neighborh... |
| 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... |
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