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Mrs. Bella Iveson hangs laundry outside her home
- Related Essay
- 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: WASH is hung in dank, checkerboard-sized yard where sun has to struggle to enter. At rear is only toilet on property. Mrs. Iveson (worked once as sales girl in 5-and-10 cent store) is keeping family on money from husband's insurance. Husband (Fred, 44, a pipefitter who once made "good money", later a seaman) was killed a month ago in automobile accident. Insurance was $900, of which $600 was spent for burial and lot. She has $180 left. If no income source develops she'll have to apply for relief.
- Collection
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection (V7: 2902 / 1938-1940 / Old Swede's Housing Project)
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