Progress Village Collection - Images
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Creation Date
1-1-1950
Time Period
circa 1950s-1960s
Abstract
A woman washes and hangs clothes to dry on the front porch of a home in Tampa, Florida. Three children are standing in front of her. This photo was used during a presentation promoting Progress Village, a suburb community designed to provide Tampa's Black residents with homes and yards in satisfactory surroundings with adequate zoning.
Keywords
Laundry, Housing, Children
Extent
1 color photograph
Subject: geographic
Hillsborough County (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.)
Physical Collection
Box
3
Folder
15
Digital Date
2024
Media Type
Color photographs
Note
"The Scrub" neighborhood was founded by freed enslaved people after the Civil War just north of downtown Tampa and near Central Avenue's thriving Black-owned businesses including the Pyramid Hotel started by Isaac Gardner. It consisted of over 600 homes, housing workers for nearby lumber mills. It was declared a slum by the City of Tampa in the 1950s and razed to create the Central Park Village housing development. Parts of the area were razed again to build I-275 in the 1950s.
Identifier
progress_village_images_1012
Recommended Citation
Progress Village, "Woman Washes and Hangs Clothes on Porch, Tampa" (1950). Progress Village Collection - Images. Image 13.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/progress_village_images/13
Keywords
Laundry, Housing, Children
