Capital slums to go under new low rent housing program. Washington, D.C., Nov. 30. Now that President Roosevelt has approved the $15,000,000 low rent housing program for the District of Columbia, such slum scenes as this will disappear from the 'city beautiful.' This picture was made within a stone'
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- 1938
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- Harris & Ewing
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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"Capital slums to go under new low rent housing program. Washington, D.C., Nov. 30. Now that President Roosevelt has approved the $15,000,000 low rent housing program for the District of Columbia, such slum scenes as this will disappear from the 'city beautiful.' This picture was made within a stone'" (1938). Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capital_slums_to_go_under_new_low_rent_housing_program._Washington,_D.C.,_Nov._30._Now_that_President_Roosevelt_has_approved_the_$15,000,000_low_rent_housing_program_for_the_District_of_LCCN2016874443.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 274435.
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