A once proud section, Washington, D.C.
These houses now are overcrowded with a Negro population and greatly in need of more sanitary methods
- Date
- 1935-09
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 968 × 659 pixels
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