Description: Caption reads: "Cutter Street looking toward Laurel Homes - Showing contrast of Poverty and Modern housing conditions. Cincinnati, Ohio. June 8, 1941." This photograph is taken on Cutter Street, just north of Clark Street, facing Ezzard Charles Drive (formerly Armory Street). Tye's Confectionery Meat is visible on the corner of Hopkins Street. On the corner at Ezzard Charles is a Pool Room. Laurel Homes was one of two Federal Housing Projects in Cincinnati's West End. Completed in 1938 and costing nearly eight million dollars, the 29 building units are made of buff brick cover a 15 block area and have 1303 apartments. Rent cost anywhere from $12.50 to $26.50 with heat and electricity included. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F02_07_01
Subjects: Streets--Ohio--Cincinnati; Confectionary; Meat industry and trade--Ohio; Housing projects, Government
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated September 30, 1935, this photograph shows the alley and back porches of apartment units in the Basin in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a caption which reads "Basin Housing Project. No. H-1801. Sept. 30, 1935. 500 Clinton, rear looking NW" and a note on the reverse which reads "Code E13. Class Cities. Ident Basin Slums. Credit United States Housing Authority. This photo must be returned to Ohio Writers' Project, 78 E. Chestnut Street, Columbus, Ohio." This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F04_019_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Housing projects; Slums; Public housing
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)