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A family without a home, John Edward Norton sits with his wife, Annie Mae, and 17-year-old daughter Greer who holds their 9-year-old daughter Alwyne, a cerebral palsy victim, in one of the three crowded rooms on the third storey of the Gilbert Hotel in downtown Trenton
A family without a home, John Edward Norton sits with his wife, Annie Mae, and 17-year-old daughter Greer who holds their 9-year-old daughter Alwyne, a cerebral palsy victim, in one of the three crowded rooms on the third storey of the Gilbert Hotel in downtown Trenton

A family without a home, John Edward Norton sits with his wife, Annie Mae, and 17-year-old daughter Greer who holds their 9-year-old daughter Alwyne, a cerebral palsy victim, in one of the three crowded rooms on the third storey of the Gilbert Hotel in downtown Trenton

Date12/14/1971
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0131595F
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