Hell's Half Acre, from original caption: 'row of disreputable houses at the edge of the mill settlement. These houses harbor the scum of the negroes and whites of the vicinity, and are separated from the village by a ditch, mill people patronize these resorts, broken down mill girls end up in them', photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, November, Alabama, 1910.
Credit: Everett Collection
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