Title

Portland's Shanty Town, 1938

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Creator

Collection

Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection

Call number of Original

9622, 9624

Creation Date

5-3-1938

Format of Original

4 x 5" gelatin silver negatives (2)

Description

Article caption:

"Portland's Shanty Town. The Back Bay dump, the last frontier for pioneering Portlanders, will serve no more as a haven for jobless men, the City Council decreed Monday night. Today, Shanty Town was shrouded in gloom. Bill Powers [at left] and his wife must leave the shack for which he paid $30 last Fall. At right is the Main Stem, all of which is to be cleared away to make Marginal Way sightly for motorists."

Photo published in the Evening Express, on 3 May 1938.

Recommended Citation

"Portland's Shanty Town, 1938" (1938). 1930's. 1.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/decades_1930/1