A fascinating 1968 cover of a paperback edition of the East Harlem classic Down These Mean Streets shows what the marketing team at Signet Non-Fiction thought was an image of hell.

A black and white photo of the backyard view of two rows of tenements, with laundry lines strung from building to building.

That same year, 1968, the photographer Robert Adams took this contrasting photo of suburban ennui in Colorado Springs, Colorado:

Build the Block (Charlie)

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