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H7804  A home in the Roumanian Quarter.  Really a cellar used as living
room, kitchen, and sleeping quarter of several Roumanians.  The only
ventilation is the small window near the ceiling

H7805  This shows what many Ford Co. employees have done for themselves.
This Serbian had paid a few dollars on a vacant lot, built this tar papered
shack and was living here with his family practically destitute when he was
hired by the Ford Motor Company.  With his pay of $5 a day be bought lumber
and built with his own hands the home shown in the lower picture.  A
comfortable healthy home for "Young America" he was bringing up.

H7806  A home in Serbian Quarter.  This house is a six room frame building
[with] no toilet or bath.  There are 3 double beds each in living and
dining rooms.  Twelve men sleep in these rooms alone beside the night shift
men, one of whom is seen asleep.  Detriot, Michigan

H7807  A backyard in the Tenement District.  This taken directly after the
Profit Sharing Plan was inaugerated shows a typical backyard in the
Tenement District, Garbage, old shoes, tin cans, old lumber, and refuse of
every kind

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