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: | 07 1923 |
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Description: | Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side. |
Date: | 02 25 1915 |
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Description: | Five impoverished and disheveled-looking African American children sitting on the ground near their home. Original caption reads: "These five little Negro ... |
Date: | 02 13 1915 |
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Description: | African-American man and woman on the front porch of a rural home. The unidentified woman is retrieving water from a well, and the man, J.R. Dean, is sitti... |
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: | 10 29 1934 |
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Description: | Portrait of seven of the twelve members of the Chris Copus family standing beside a pot belly stove in their makeshift garage home on Roth Street. They wer... |
Date: | 11 28 1933 |
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Description: | Portrait of elderly Mrs. Hugh O'Neill, lying in bed after losing her life savings of $610, which had been in a bag pinned to her undergarments. 917 Chandle... |
Date: | 09 02 1930 |
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Description: | Dilapidated backyard at Milwaukee amd N. Bryan Street next to Madison Builders Supply. |
Date: | 07 15 1948 |
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Description: | A Mexican woman and her six children are standing on the porch of the multiple-family housing provided to them by the pea cannery for which their husband a... |
Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Abraham Schmocker, a "hermit" who lived in "Stumptown" near Alma, seated on a bench outside his log cabin, holding a kitty. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | An entirely closed court in a tenement district. Two children are in a doorway. |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the Dane County Poorhouse. |
Date: | |
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Description: | An African American woman with two children on the porch of a house on Johns Island. |
Date: | |
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Description: | An African American family standing on the porch of their home, behind a wooden picket fence. |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | Florence Thompson with several of her children in a tent shelter as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Charles Hayes (fourth from the right), an officer of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with the UPWA delegation to the march. |
Date: | 08 1963 |
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Description: | Marjory Collins, a writer and photographer for the "National Guardian," took this picture of the housing of poor blacks. |
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: | 05 08 2009 |
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Description: | James, a recycling man, poses with his wagon of recyclables. |
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