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Mrs. Bella Iveson shops for bargains
- Related Essay
- The Old Swedes Public Housing Plan, 1939-40: City Politics Sink a Federal Project
- Creator Name
- Philadelphia Record
- Date Created
- 1939
- Description
- Caption reads: CLOTHING can be picked up cheap along 4th st. But fitting and quality haphazard and jobian patience a requisite. Mrs. Iveson paid 35 cents for the dress she has on, the same for silk slip, 69 cents for her shoes. She buys trousers for Freddie at 35 cents, shirts 25 cents, other things in proportion. Shopping's one of her few pleasure and she has to do a lot of it, particularly for food. That's because of Freddie's appetite. For dinner one day he ate three boiled eggs, eight slices of bread and butter, a large meat pie and half of a 10-inch coconut pie.
- Collection
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection (V7: 2902 / 1938-1940 / Old Swede's Housing Project)
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