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Shantytown: The Ed Salamony Photographs

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Shantytown: The Ed Salamony Photographs

Photo Antiquities

(412) 231-7881

There were no nightclubs or bars in the Strip District that Ed Salamony saw. There were no bustling Saturday morning produce markets, either.

Salamony, a young Pittsburgh photojournalist during the Depression, captured one of the many shantytowns that sprang up across the country in the 1930s

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