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Eating Lunch in the Iveson Home
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- The Old Swedes Public Housing Plan, 1939-40: City Politics Sink a Federal Project
- Street Address
- 111 Washington Ave
- Creator Name
- Philadelphia Record
- Date Created
- 1939
- Description
- Caption reads: FOR LUNCH at kitchen table ($2.50 new, with four chairs - "you can get bargains if you look sharp"), the Ivesons and her mother, Mrs. Mary Wyruchowski, have home-made vegetable soups (25 cents for about three quarts of it), bread (day-old at 6 cents loaf), left over meat loaf. One advantage of neighborhood is food is cheap and good, says Mrs. Iveson. She shops at Dock st. (for produce and fish in large quantity) and in 4th st, curb market below South St. Has but few recreations. Walks in near
- Collection
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection (V7: 2902 / 1938-1940 / Old Swede's Housing Project)
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