Item 2276: Draper Corporation tenements, Dutcher Street, 1919

Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B2276. September 1919. Image depicts a two-story wood-shingled house with two large gables on either end forming an attic. Some windows are diamond paned and all have shutters. The building is designed for occupancy by two families and has a double set of stairs at the front entrance. Shrubs and climbing vines surround the entry and house. Two small children play on the bottom step and another girl or young woman is barely visible at the far left. This house was built by the Draper Corporation for its employees. Tenements in this context simply means employee housing and not the "slum" housing usually thought of in reference to the word tenements. 25.25 x 20.25 cm.