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Barricade 4300 Sansom 1953

Barricade erected in front of homes on the 4300 block of Sansom Street, the 30-foot-deep, block-wide hole (shown here in June 1953) caused by the sewer cave in of August 1952

Neighborhoods
Mill Creek
7 June 1953
Attribution/Credit

Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, George P. McDowell Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries