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Children at Play in Chicago Alley

Date: 07 1923
Description: Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side.
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Young Children Play in Squalid Alley

Date: 1925
Description: Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley.
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Avenue Food Shop

Date: 04 12 1933
Description: Avenue Food Shop, 546 W. Washington Avenue, showing alley and garage.
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Elevated View of Alley in City

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view from a hill of an alley connecting Park Hill Avenue and Mount Vernon Avenue, looking west from the Interurban Line. There is a person on top ...
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Garfield Street Accident Scene

Date: 02 07
Description: Accident scene between truck driven by Clyde Holmes and Donald Marking, age eight, who was struck and killed while sledding. View shows the alley between 1...
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Rear of Stephan & Thorsen Store

Date: 11 10 1947
Description: Rear view of Stephan & Thorsen Men's Clothing Store, 214 State Street.
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Men Loading International G-61 Truck

Date: 1921
Description: An International Harvester Model G-61 truck owned by the One Minute Manufacturing Co. carrying a shipment of One Minute Washers. The truck is parked in an ...
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Truck in Alley

Date: 1985
Description: Alley in a DeKalb neighborhood.
Drawing

House on Murray's Alley

Date: 08 22 1885
Description: Pencil drawing of residence on Murray's Alley.
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A Stone Fight

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Description: Children having a stone fight in an unpaved alley or street in an underprivileged neighborhood. Some of the boys are holding trash can lids as protection, ...
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Retaining Wall and Houses

Date: 09 1979
Description: Retaining wall and houses from back alley.
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Back Alley Garage

Date: 04 1981
Description: Back alley garage, Jefferson Street.
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Backyard from Alley

Date: 05 1981
Description: Backyard from alley, East Franklin Street.
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Lake Mills Garage

Date: 05 1981
Description: Garage, Madison Street, from Merchants Alley.
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Ice Storm

Date: 1922
Description: Winter scene of a Baraboo, Wisconsin, alley after an ice storm, possibly March 2, 1922. Utility poles are leaning and their wires sag under the weight of t...
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Alley of Hammond's "Little Italy"

Date: 06 1925
Description: View down littered back alley in Hammond's "Little Italy."
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Residential Back Alley

Date: 10 1924
Description: View down clean alley between the backs of houses in a residential neighborhood. Both sides of the alley are lined with garages.
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Children in Tenement Section

Date: 1923
Description: Children joining hands while playing in an alleyway between brick buildings in an area of tenement housing. A line of laundry suspended over the alley is h...
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600 Block of State Street

Date: 06 1967
Description: Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 100 block of State Street. Businesses include: Brathaus, The Perfume Shop, Lou's Tobacco Bar, Pattie Wago...
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Carriage in Alley

Date: 
Description: A man steers a horse-drawn carriage down an alley as two others look on from a doorway. The photograph was taken in Saint George, Bermuda.

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