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South Chicago, February 3, 1950

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

Tenement with no running water, Chicago, 1952

Apartment, Chicago, March 10, 1950

Tenement with padlocked fire escape, Chicago, March 10, 1950

35th & Honore Street, rowhouses without indoor plumbing, Chicago, July 2, 1950

Storefront home of family of nine, one room - no windows, hot water or heat, no partitions; Chicago, June 3, 1952

Storefront home of family of nine, one room - no windows, hot water or heat, no partitions; Chicago, June 3, 1952

A child in the doorway of a row house, Chicago, July 2, 1950

Wall during demolition, Chicago, Illinois, April 20, 1956

Tenement family sells socks laid out on newspaper on the street, Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York, June 1936

Road closed for tenement children to play, Sixth Street & Avenue C, New York, June 1936

Hamilton County, Ohio, December 1935

Father earned today some money and daughter is sent for milk, Poland, 1937

New York tenement, 1910