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Storefront home of family of nine, one room - no windows, hot water or heat; Chicago, June 3, 1952
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Storefront home of family of nine, one room - no windows, hot water or heat; Chicago, June 3, 1952
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Chicago, July 6, 1951
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Rear of 1347 South Newberry, Chicago, Illinois, September 9, 1955
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Hotel Barry through an alley, Chicago, July 30, 1953
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Boy watches slum demolition, Chicago, 1952
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Little girl breaks ice to get water, Chicago, January 27, 1950
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Overcrowded tenement (24 people living in 4 rooms), Chicago, May 1948
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Wall during demolition, Chicago, Illinois, April 20, 1956
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Tenement houses being demolished to become part of the Michael Reese hospital as part of an urban renewal plan, Chicago, ca. 1955
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Housing near Maxwell Street flea market, Chicago, 1957
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Overcrowded tenement (24 people living in 4 rooms), Chicago, May 1948
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Oakland Tribune, California, April 28, 1935
Fairview school, Vancouver, 1897
Advice to emigrants, 1832
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The Leavenworth Post, Kansas, May 25, 1910
Free wash tubs, free baths and a barber who will give his services gratis to those who cannot pay are among the strikingly novel features of the plans for keeping the poorer classes neat in clean during next September..