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A row of tenement houses on an unpaved street, Johnstown, PA., circa 1910.
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Tenement Housing and children in Johnstown.

Credit: Courtesy of the Johnstown Area Heritage Association, http://www.jaha.org/

Crowded into dilapidated housing without indoor plumbing, immigrant iron and steelworker families were often feared and kept at arms length by Old stock Pennsylvanians.

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