September 1935. Washington, D.C. "Front of Negro home near Capitol. Interiors of these homes vary little. A chair or two and a table, a bed and perhaps an extra mattress on the floor cares for six to ten people." 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans for the Farm Security Administration.
4 comments:
If I'm not mistaken, that's an alley house.
Mike- not sure about that... there's fence and a yard (sort of). Wouldn't that interfere with alley traffic?
Bret: You may be right. Some of the alleys were square, though. In either case, the house looks like ones I've seen with walls just 2 bricks deep, really cold in the winter. No side ventilation, of course. Better than most DC slum housing of the era, though, which was made of wood.
Mike, as always, I bow to your considerable expertise.
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