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Slide images are as follows: *Note that The University of Chicago Archives holds the “Mildred Mead Photographs” in their photographic files. All of these images were used in “The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago, 1895 – 1976” by Devereux Bowly, Jr. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois Universit...

Photographs, nearly all by Mildred Mead, a photographer for the Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council, showing neighborhoods in Chicago (Ill.) targeted by the Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council for urban renewal. The photographs depict slum conditions, homes in revitalized areas (inclu...