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Pearl Refused: 1943

January 1943. Washington, D.C. "Pearl Ginsburg refused to have her boardinghouse rent raised." Medium format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.

January 1943. Washington, D.C. "Pearl Ginsburg refused to have her boardinghouse rent raised." Medium format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.

 

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There's another bed in the room that's still made up; maybe the landlord wanted to raise the rent because she didn't have a roommate. Like all the boardinghouse girls in Bubley's photographs, the surroundings are sloppy, but the girls have taken a lot of trouble to fix their hair just right. The cookie jar and the magazine point to time spent alone.

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