Chicago Housing: Slum

Titleseries Series II: Buildings and Grounds

Titlename Chicago Housing

Titletypename Slum

Identifierscannumber apf2-09366

Titlephotosequencenumber 2:7:8

Datephotographcreated 1948-12-07

Creatorphotographer Mead, Mildred

Description Bathroom, no fixtures. Open sewer pipe down which residents poured refuse. Unlighted and hard to hit! Note the rat hole in bottom of rear wall. Human feces on the floor and all over the walls. It was so dark here I just aimed in general and shot. In the light of the flash I saw the mess.

Subject1 Tenement houses

Subject2 Bathrooms

Subject3 Deterioration

Subject4 Interior views

Subject5 Sewers (Drainage structures)

Subject6 Feces

Coveragespatial1 215-219 E. 31st Street

Coveragespatial2 Chicago, Illinois

Formatoriginalmedium Photographic prints

Formatoriginalextent 24.7 x 19.5 cm

Source Archival Photographic Files. Addenda. Mildred Mead Photographs

Publisher University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center