Flip to Homeless shelters dug into the walls near the Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, circa 1930.Close Window
Credit: James R. Cox Collection, 1923-1950, Father Cox, Archives Service Center, at the University of Pittsburgh.
In Pittsburgh, unemployed and homeless men lived in these shacks near Penn Avenue. A sign on the shack in the center advertises the sale of "washing fluid," and notes that the "Profits Go To Father Cox."
