Poverty Gulch, Cripple Creek, Colo., U.S.A.

Poverty Gulch, Cripple Creek, Colo., U.S.A.

Poverty in the Midwest

Photograph taken eight years after Jane Addams founded Hull House in Chicago. The image shows three people walking down a row of deteriorating buildings, likely houses. It is living conditions, like those shown in the above photograph, that would have driven Jane Addams to found Hull house.

Library of Congress - https://www.loc.gov/item/2018647153/

1897

No known restrictions on publication.

Print

English

still image, Stereographs 1890-1900. Photographic prints 1890-1900.

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.1s11027

Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.

Photograph

9 x 18 cm