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This group of buildings is bounded on one side by the city dump, on another by a tidewater swamp. The swamp smells at low tide; burning refuse in the dump smells always. On a third side of this site is a particularly odorous hog farm, where hundreds of pigs are fattened on garbage and swill. Never-the-less, the group of shacks provide homes for four shipyard workers' families. "Very temporarily," they say

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Title: This group of buildings is bounded on one side by the city dump, on another by a tidewater swamp. The swamp smells at low tide; burning refuse in the dump smells always. On a third side of this site is a particularly odorous hog farm, where hundreds of pigs are fattened on garbage and swill. Never-the-less, the group of shacks provide homes for four shipyard workers' families. "Very temporarily," they say
Publication Information: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Kaiser (Henry J.) Collection - Selections From the Pictorial Collection, 1941-1946
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9p30136v
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