Washburne Avenue: Alley, Shack Fire
- Titleseries Series II: Buildings and Grounds
- Titlename Washburne Avenue
- Titletypename Alley, Shack Fire
- Identifierscannumber apf2-09384
- Titlephotosequencenumber 2:8:5
- Datephotographcreated 1950-10-04
- Creatorphotographer Mead, Mildred
- Description In front of the alley shack where fire killed six people on October 3, 1950, a four-room basement apartment, housing a family of nine. Though the [rent] ceiling is $22.00, they pay $40.00 a month in rent, and furnish their own heat. The basement floods out several times a year. Exposed electrical wiring.
- Subject1 Fires
- Subject2 Fires--Casualties
- Subject3 Apartment houses
- Subject4 Damage
- Subject5 Children
- Coveragespatial1 1143 W. Washburne Avenue
- Coveragespatial2 Chicago, Illinois
- Formatoriginalmedium Photographic prints
- Formatoriginalextent 19.3 x 24.6 cm
- Source Archival Photographic Files. Addenda. Mildred Mead Photographs
- Publisher University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
- Identifierbarcode 45041170
- Digital Collection University of Chicago Photographic Archive
- Rights http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/rights.html