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656 MacDonough Street
656 MacDonough Street

Cleaning up job

Woman holds, and Black man attaches, sign ("A clean block is a good block") to iron fence; tools on pavement in foreground; row of apartment houses in left background; large tree in right background. Caption: "Cleaning up job--Homer Johnston, 706 MacDonough [sic] St. fastens sign of civic pride to fence in front of 656 MacDonough St. with assist from Mrs. Louis Ruggiero, a resident of latter address. He's president and she is assistant secretary of the 600 MacDonough Association, which is promoting the clean-up campaign." (Street name is really McDonough Street.).

IMAGE DATE1953
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