Slum house, ‘The Ward’, 1911. (21/96)
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There are people in other countries right now who would find this a step up from what their current reality is. Everything is relative.
My mom told that only well to do familys had roast chicken on a Sunday. And my grandmother was a hard worker as a nurse at St Michael,, a single mom. Mom and her sister had two of each outfits,socks, underwear, uniforms and one pair of shoes. They would wash their clothes by hand to dry for the every other day. Nana was a great provider as much as she could, mom and my aunt were so grateful for everything they had. And never thought they were poor.A very strong generation that survived to raise us kids, and not one complaint did we ever hear..
I find this picture brings the “the Ward” into perspective. Some good background in an article on Blog TO. Facebook won’t let me link. 🥴
Not funny to write that the house pictured would sell for $1.5M. It was even thought that poor people were lazy and therefore poor. Then, as now, too many jobs just don’t pay enough.
We cannot judge the inside by the outside most were immigrants from Europe who, usually keep clean homes the owners were responsible in keeping it up,back then they did not care.