Housing, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: Homestead. Has no Ordinance prohibiting privy vaults; No Ordinance requiring an adequate Water Supply. In 21 courts the Pittsburgh Survey found 26 Privy Vaults with 144 Compartments the Sole toilet accommodations for 1308 people. Only 3 tenements with running water in them. An average of 50 people to each yard hydrant or pump.

Lewis Wickes Hine

1907-1908

White ink on brown paper

Fogg Museum

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Social Museum Collection