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Housing near Maxwell Street, Chicago, 1957
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Housing near Maxwell Street, Chicago, 1957
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South Chicago, February 3, 1950
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32nd & Wabash, Chicago, September 26, 1951
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Mildred Mead:
Actual tenement transported from South Dearborn Street to the Public Library Metropolitan Housing Council Exhibit at Chicago Public Library. The public viewers were shocked and interested in this slum room with a rat. Chicago, April 8, 1948
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Tenement with no running water, Chicago, 1952
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Apartment, Chicago, March 10, 1950
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Tenement with padlocked fire escape, Chicago, March 10, 1950
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35th & Honore Street, rowhouses without indoor plumbing, Chicago, July 2, 1950
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Storefront home of family of nine, one room - no windows, hot water or heat, no partitions; Chicago, June 3, 1952
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Storefront home of family of nine, one room - no windows, hot water or heat, no partitions; Chicago, June 3, 1952
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A child in the doorway of a row house, Chicago, July 2, 1950
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Boy watches slum demolition, Chicago, 1952
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Chicago, Illinois, May 20, 1950
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Wall during demolition, Chicago, Illinois, April 20, 1956
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Housing near Maxwell Street flea market, Chicago, 1957