Strip District Hooverville

1930

Order Reproduction
Title
Strip District Hooverville
Creator
Cox, James R. (James Renshaw), 1886-1951
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1930
Identifier
695.0831.FC
Description
View of a Strip District shanty town, where unemployed and homeless men found shelter in shacks in the foreground. Penn Avenue is in the background. A sign on the shack advertises the sale of "washing fluid," and notes that "Profits Go To Father Cox."
Extent
8 x 10 in.
Type
still image
Genre
photographs
photographic prints
gelatin silver prints
Subject
Poverty
Depressions--1929
Dwellings
Geographic Subjects
Strip (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Source
James R. Cox Papers, 1923-1950
Collection
Father Cox Papers
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
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