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Image Title: Must We Always Have This? Why Not Housing?, 1936

Date: 1936

Summary: Poster promoting planned housing as the solution to a host of inner-city problems, showing an inkblot on which are drawn elements of inner-city life.

Subjects: City & town life--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940
City planning--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940
Housing--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940
New York City Housing Authority--Public relations--1930-1940
Slums--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940

Places: New York State--New York

Original Media: Poster

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