Strip District Hooverville

1930

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Strip District Hooverville
  • Title
  • Strip District Hooverville
  • Creator
  • Cox, James R. (James Renshaw), 1886-1951
  • Date
  • 1930
  • Identifier
  • 695.0831.FC
  • Description
  • View of a Strip District shanty town, where unemployed and homeless men found shelter in shacks in the foreground. Penn Avenue is in the background. A sign on the shack advertises the sale of "washing fluid," and notes that "Profits Go To Father Cox."
  • Extent
  • 8 x 10 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
    photographic prints
    gelatin silver prints
  • Subject
  • Poverty
    Depressions--1929
    Dwellings
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Strip (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • James R. Cox Papers, 1923-1950
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Father Cox Papers
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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