"Gents fare no better than their ladies, whose sister-structure is illustrated on a previous page. This privy serves 100 men and boys. It has no roof. It swarms with flies. Heavy autumn rains begin in a month from the time this picture was taken. The men who are forced to use such accomodations [sic] have known good homes, to which most are eager to return. Some of the 10,059 shipyard workers who quit the Richmond yards in the last month did so because they could not stand to live and raise their children here. 36

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"Gents fare no better than their ladies, whose sister-structure is illustrated on a previous page. This privy serves 100 men and boys. It has no roof. It swarms with flies. Heavy autumn rains begin in a month from the time this picture was taken. The men who are forced to use such accomodations [sic] have known good homes, to which most are eager to return. Some of the 10,059 shipyard workers who quit the Richmond yards in the last month did so because they could not stand to live and raise their children here.

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UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library