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Making Flowers in a Slum Home by Lewis Wickes Hine — VisualArtsDB

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Making Flowers in a Slum Home

Lewis Wickes Hine

1908

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 13 1/2 × 10 1/2" (34.3 × 26.7 cm)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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Housing, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: Homestead. Has no Ordinance prohibiting privy vaults; No Ordinance requiring an adequate Water Supply. In 21 courts the Pittsburgh Survey found 26 Privy Vaults with 144 Compartments the Sole toilet accommodations for 1308 people. Only 3 tenements with running water in them. An average of 50 people to each yard hydrant or pump.

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