The history and development of the housing movement in the city of Washington, D.C.
A 1907 Washington, D.C. study by George M. Kober and the Washington Sanitary Improvement Company, tracing the city's working-class housing movement and its tenement and alley dwellings. The four pictures are documentary: a rotated street photograph of rows of tenements, floor plans of three- and four-room flats, a diagram of hidden alley dwellings reached by cul-de-sacs, and a photograph of a charity agent in a rear yard collecting refuse. A designer could draw on their plain architectural line work, dense plan lettering, and the stark contrast between street facades and crowded back-lot scenes.
