Scenes from Miami's Overtown neighborhood (1930s - 1940s)

Overtown apartment house at 1733 NW 5th Place.
All photographs by Gleason Waite Romer. 
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Children on the porch of a 3-room house at 1980 NW 
4th Avenue in Overtown.

Three-room houses near NW 17th Street and 2nd Court in Overtown. 

Overtown homes at NW 1st Place. 

ORIGINAL CAPTION: 3-room frame houses in Overtown on NW 2nd Court 
across the street from Al's Grocery and Meat Market. 
Rocking chairs and potted plants adorn the porches.

ORIGINAL CAPTION: Congested area of Miami's Negro district.

ORIGINAL CAPTION: Congested area of Miami's Negro district.

ORIGINAL CAPTION: Congested area of Miami's Negro district.

Children play in a narrow lane between wooden houses 
in poverty-ridden Overtown.

ORIGINAL CAPTION: Children on an Overtown porch.
A sign on the porch reads "Hand Laundry Wanted." 
The house is located at the corner of NW 1st Place and 19th Street.

Detail from above photograph.

ORIGINAL CAPTION: Congested area of Miami's Negro district.
Man demonstrates how close little houses in Overtown are to each other.

Overtown home at NW 17th Street and 2nd Court.

Four room frame house in  Overtown at NW 2nd Court and 10th Street.

Outdoor toilets used in many sections of the Overtown district