Category: LOAN
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Date: 1959-06
Medium: gelatin silver print with editing marks
Dimensions: approximately: 11 x 14 inches; 27.94 x 35.56 cm
Accession Number: NYT.2016.0252.0016

Inscriptions:
Recto, handwritten: 503 / 503; Verso, stamped: MAY 23 PM 3 25; stamped: JUN 23 16 50; handwritten: 14=485-L-47A; typed: [SLUM] [struck through] / HOUSING IN ST. JOHNS, NEWFOUNDLAND (T[D?]ania Long story) / The local government is trying to clear the slum areas of the / city by xxxxxxx building model homes in the blighted areas, / TAMES/gdem June 22, 59 #52681 / Men at [wo]rk on the new model buildings. In rear, the dark housex [sic] / is part of the slum area. / Children play in the as yet unfinished street in front of a new / building, where their parents have moved. / Typical slum houses, scheduled to be torn down. [marked with red grease pencil] / (#12) One of the inhabitants of the slum draws water from a pump / in the street. This slum is in the wharves area, the old part of / the city.; stamped: PUBLISHED IN N.Y.T. / DAILY JUN 24 1959 / - 1 OF 2 - [handwritten]; printed on newsprint adhered with tape: These dilapidated wooden shacks are typical of the slum / dwellings scheduled to be torn down in the Canadian city / where one-third of the housing is considered to be slums.; handwritten: 2 col x 5 1/8"; stamped: [illeg.] / [illeg.] YORK TIMES / [illeg.]; handwritten and stamped: News DAILY / 2 COLS. 3 5/8 x 5 1/8 / WANTED / 1st ed; stamped: RETURN TO TIMES / DATE RECEIVED / JUN 24 1959 / IN PICTURE FILES / PHOTO LIBRARY; stamped: MAY 23 PM4 38

Credit Line: The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection