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Sleeping in the Iveson 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: ALL FIVE sleep in the same room on the second floor. In winter, even with little stove going full blast, they shiver under the covers, They burn about half ton of coal a month. In summer ice is picked up when dumped from refrigerator cars on Delaware ave. Top room (used for storing) is tiny, frigid in winter, insufferable in summer. Children go to bed at 8 P.M., Mrs. Iveson at 11. She's up again at 7 A.M. and the youngsters an hour later. Nights punctuated by horns shrieking from the river, puffing engines crashing freight cars against on another from the tracks.
- Collection
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection (V7: 2902 / 1938-1940 / Old Swede's Housing Project)
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