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| Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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| Description: | A woman and boy are using "sedge brush" brooms to sweep a dirt yard as two women — possibly social workers or Agricultural Extension employees — look on. A... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side. |
| Date: | 02 25 1915 |
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| Description: | Five impoverished and disheveled-looking African American children sitting on the ground near their home. Original caption reads: "These five little Negro ... |
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| Description: | Dirty and disheveled boy with no shoes standing in the street with a baby carriage. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley. |
| Date: | 02 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house. |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | Two women and two young girls in a field with an ox-driven walking plow. Original caption reads: "This picture was not taken in Egypt nor India nor Africa ... |
| Date: | 10 29 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of seven of the twelve members of the Chris Copus family standing beside a pot belly stove in their makeshift garage home on Roth Street. They wer... |
| Date: | 07 15 1948 |
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| Description: | A Mexican woman and her six children are standing on the porch of the multiple-family housing provided to them by the pea cannery for which their husband a... |
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| Description: | A Black Family (Ingram children) in Georgia in the 1930s or 1940s. |
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| Description: | An African American woman with two children on the porch of a house on Johns Island. |
| Date: | 08 1963 |
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| Description: | Marjory Collins, a writer and photographer for the "National Guardian," took this picture of the housing of poor blacks. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Three young children standing in a backyard in very poor condition, including the lack of a lawn, exposed trash piles, and other litter. |
| Date: | 03 22 1912 |
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| Description: | Two young girls standing with their arms around each other in the debris-strewn yard of a run-down home. The original caption identifies the location as th... |
| Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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| Description: | A woman and young boy sweep yard with "brush broom" while another woman with two children looks on. Two additional women, possibly Agricultural Extension e... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of five children walking in a field behind what appears to be tenement housing. Wooden fire escapes are attached to the rear of the buildings... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A family poses for photographers documenting living conditions. Beekman Quarters housed 81 people in 23 buildings. None of the houses in the neighborhood... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Two boys stand in a wet dirt road in the foreground. In the background is a house with a pile of objects in the yard, including an automobile, a door, and ... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Children gather in the foreground, while houses and yards are visible in the background. A woman walks along the dirt path towards the camera. “Row upon... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A group of children, several holding balloons, gather on the porch of a building near a debris-scattered yard. “Row upon row of dilapidated buildings, th... |
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