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Overcrowded tenement (24 people living in 4 rooms), Chicago, May 1948
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Tenement, Avenue D, New York, June 1936
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Tenement family sells socks laid out on newspaper on the street, Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York, June 1936
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Harlem Taxicab, Washington DC,
September 1935
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Road closed for tenement children to play, Sixth Street & Avenue C, New York, June 1936
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Looking out of rear window tenement dwelling, New York, June 1936
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Van Horn Street, Hamilton County, Ohio,
December 1935
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Hamilton County, Ohio,
December 1935
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A tenement family works making tags. They make about $10 a month ($241.60 with inflation). NYC, November 1912
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Doing home-work, mending a pair of pants, NYC, February 1912
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Doing crochet work on underwear on dirty underwear, NYC, August 1912
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A mother and her daughters darning clothing, NYC, 1912
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Children help their mother with her piecework. She makes $2 - $2.50 a week ($48.21 - $60.27 a week today) while “father loafs”, NYC, 1912
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A family making flowers for 6 cents ($1.45 today) a gross (a gross is 144). They make about 11 gross a day ($15.91 daily in today’s dollars) NYC, February 1912.
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Mother and daughter work on embroidery piecework, Upper East Side, NYC, February 1912