Photo 1: This photo taken sometime between 1900-1910 captures six homeless men meeting with an elected official at the Department of Public Charity in Brooklyn (Transients)
Photo 2: This photograph taken by the Brown Brothers shows stuffed, sleeping homeless men in a waiting room 26th Street Charities Pier. Another photo from the Department of Public Charities (Brown).
Photo 3: This photo captures NYC men waiting at a Bowery Mission bread line at one in the morning on a Sunday in January 1914., the Bowery Mission" (Jeantet).
Photo 4: An unknown photographer captures the wretched living standard of NYC's Hoovervilles taken around the 1930s. The shallow trench-like dips, the wrecked house, and a lonesome dog toppled with a city background proves the failure of Hoovervilles to make any significant difference (NYC).
Photo 5: President Lyndon Johnson along with Governor Terry Sanford, visiting the home of William David Marlow, a tenant farmer, to promote and increase popularity for the “War on Poverty” initiative (War).
Photo 6: David Koch, businessman, and Anthony Gliedman, a NYC housing official, speak at a press conference, introducing ideas to turn apartment buildings to homeless housing (Rice).
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