MOR-0893

Census takers interviewing people at Salvation Army Hotel

1940-04-09

SFP 39

San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

Box PxS 9; Folder: Census

Still image

1 photographic print : b&w ; 9 x 7 in.

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Newscopy: Census-takers invade bowery New York: - down to the street of forgotten men – the bowery - went Uncle Sam's census-takers, April 8, to invade 15¢ flop houses, missions, hallways, etc., in quest of information for the 1940 census. Frank Stein, of Romania (left) and Thomas Lovejoy, a Californian (right) answer questions for census enumerators Sam Silverstein, Jack Fink and Al Epstein (left to right, seated) in the Salvation Army Memorial Hotel.

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