Diagram of a typical Chicago alley, c.1901. A privy (P) is an outhouse. I can only imagine how these back streets smelled on a hot summer day with the bathrooms and the manure piles.
Everytime I romanticize visiting another era, I have to remind myself of the luxuries we have today…
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