Chicago Housing: Mother with Problems

Titleseries Series II: Buildings and Grounds

Titlename Chicago Housing

Titletypename Mother with Problems

Identifierscannumber apf2-09122

Titlephotosequencenumber 1:10:1

Datephotographcreated 1952-06-03

Creatorphotographer Mead, Mildred

Description Family of nine lives in the boarded up store front, no windows, no heat, no hot water, no bath. Housing council (Metropolitan Housing and Planning) investigates. With cooperation several other housing agencies, got them moved to an adequate place.

Subject1 Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council (Chicago, Ill.)

Subject2 Exterior views

Subject3 Housing

Subject4 Deterioration

Subject5 Slums--Illinois--Chicago

Subject6 Children

Coveragespatial1 1800 W. Superior Avenue

Coveragespatial2 Chicago, Illinois

Formatoriginalmedium Black-and-white negatives

Formatoriginalextent 19.0 x 23.7 cm

Source Archival Photographic Files. Addenda. Mildred Mead Photographs

Publisher University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center