Category: LOAN
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Date: 1959-06
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 11 x 14 inches; 27.94 x 35.56 cm
Accession Number: NYT.2016.0252.0017

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, 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 work 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: [illeg.] / [illeg.] York Times / [illeg.] / [illeg.]; stamped: RETURN TO TIMES / DATE RECEIVED / JUN 24 1959 / IN PICTURE FILES / PHOTO LIBRARY

Credit Line: The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection