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December 1935. "Suburban section. Hamilton County, Ohio." Photo by Carl Mydans for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
My favorite thing about this is though these all look similar and probably have the same size lots and even chimneys in the same place none of them are the same at all. A lot of individual touches.
except, they are all slightly different. One wonders whether the interiors were the same. I guess we'll never know now.
An abandoned jacket on the hood of a car, an open gate, uncollected mail, a solitary cat and a lone man walking down the hill. It's a bit creepy, somehow.
This one took me quite a while to figure out, but I was able to identify this as Cincinnati's Walnut Hills neighborhood. The buildings at the extreme top right of the photo are on Gilbert Avenue, a good 1,500 feet away.
The five houses in the foreground are on Symmes Street about a block north of Florence Avenue, looking to the east northeast. The CL&N Railroad ran up the hill from right to left a block behind these houses on a frightening 3.5% grade. Sadly Symmes Street here and these houses were obliterated for the construction of I-71 in the 1960s. The rest of the neighborhood hasn't fared much better, and today most people would consider this decidedly inner-city, as opposed to suburban.
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