The Archive · 1923

Houses by the Mile

The one or two storey frame houses are the most common type of workingman's home. They are built in series, sometimes in series of series, one behind the other with little space between that the women dry their laundry or air the bedding on ordinary lengths of bamboo poles laid between the upper windows of two rows of houses. These groups of houses or villages a5 they are called, have their own names, their own head men, and ate as distinct a unit as any coun~

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