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Title: Family, Beekman Quarters
Description: A family poses in front of their home. "This family has to stop using the back room to this house. What used to be a doorway is now part of a huge hole in the wall. Father earns $30.00 a week on a full-time job."

Beekman Quarters housed 81 people in 23 buildings. None of the houses in the neighborhood had running water or gas/electric heating; the neighborhood had 15 outdoor toilets and 11 outdoor water hydrants.
Image ID: 98941
Creation
Date: 		1966 ca.
Creator
Name: 		Unknown
City, State: Natchez, Mississippi
Collection
Name: 		Beech, Robert : Papers, 1963-1972
Genre: Photographs
Additional
Information: 		Images, data, and quotations come from the "Natchez Poverty Report," prepared by Mark Lundeen and Barbara Shelly under the supervision of Robert (Bob) Beech for the Delta Ministry. Image A9
Subjects: Dwellings
Slums
Yards
Deterioration
Poverty
African Americans
Children and adults
Family
Outdoor photography
Women
Clothing and dress
 

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