Trash in Alley

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2012-01-24

Authors

Boyd, Mark F.

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According to the clean-up ordinance, all trash was to be gathered by tenants and owners then placed in alleyways where wagons could collect it. Fines were issued to those who did not comply.
4.5 x 6.5 in. black-and-white photograph

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Bubonic plague, Galveston Plague Laboratory, Rats as carriers of disease, United States Public Health Service

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