Outside: Living Conditions in the Neighborhoods
of Pittsburgh
Back to Back Houses: Double row owned in 1908 by Tibby
Glass Company, each household section being made up of one room on each
floor. No through ventilation, no sewer connection, no running water. In
nearly every house lived children who had gone to work below the legal
age.
Rock Street. Showing the Open Drain: "The drain becomes
the resting place for innumerable empty tin cans, worn out brooms, old
shoes, and other articles foreign to the lap of a respectable sewer. As
result, it overflows into cellar and basement kitchens."
Hazel Alley, McKeesport: Vaults and living rooms in close
proximity
A Hillside Battery of Disease: Thirteen dry unsewered vaults
are shown in the length of the picture. Waste water drains down over the
embankment, alongside the tracks where the through Baltimore and Ohio passenger
trains set the dust awhirl. The vault next the end at the left is all that
is supplied to three houses, sheltering eight families.
Equipment for Home Life: Four houses, one behind another,
climbing up hillside between streets. Under the porch to the left were
two filthy closets without flushing apparatus. They were the only provision
for five families in the first two houses
Basin Alley: In the Italian quarter on the Hill, Pittsburgh.
Rear Alley, Duquesne: A growing spot for weeds and
rubbish piles and children
Wings of the Largest Tenement in the District: Two stories
on Forbes Street and five stories in the rear. No fire-escapes. Over 20
families. A photograph of this building was published as an example of
bad housing in the Bureau of Health Report for 1907. It is an example of
worse housing in 1914.
Miller Street, Duquesne: Open drain at side of street.
Offspring of the Old-Time Wells: Yard hydrant and filthy
wooden drain, Braddock.
Clogged Drain on Maurice Street
Hydrant Adjacent to Vault: The only water supply for nine
families
General View of the Soho Hill District: Cornet Street in
the foreground; the Jones and Laughlin steel millls and the Twenty-second
Street bridge in the distance; Forbes Street to the right
Wash Day in an Inner Court, Braddock: Thirteen families
used this court. In the octagonal building eight closets emptied into a
sewer which was flushed only occasionally
Willow Alley, Braddock: Rubbish in rear yard where children
play. Two hydrants and two vaults for 30 apartments.
Residence Street, Pitcairn: Typical of neighborhoods where
higher paid employees live, to be found in most of the larger industrial
towns of the Pittsburgh District
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