Children playing in the slums behind the Capitol, Washington D.C.
date: label: Date made
content: 1936-08
label: Date made
content: 1936
name: label: photographer
content: Mydans, Carl
notes: label: Description
content: Carl Mydans' main projects for the Resettlement Administration dealt with photographing urban and residential development and the impoverished dwellings they were replacing. Mydans captured these two children outside their tenement somewhere amidst the shadows of the Capitol. Although new "greenbelt towns"—government-sponsored planned communities—were being developed in suburbs to relieve housing shortages, living conditions in most areas were below average.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
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content: Carl Mydans
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Mydans, Carl. Carl Mydans, Photojournalist
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0228.004
label: accession number
content: 2005.0228
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0228.004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 14 in; 27.94 cm x 35.56 cm