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Interviewer Mary p* Hudfzins
P erson Interviewed Emma Sanderson Aged 75
Eome 617 Wade Street , ffpt Springs*
"Emma Sanderson"—«?/ade street"* That las all the
prospective Interviewer could learn* "Emma Sanderson
ex-slavet" "Wade Street"—*Why it T s way off that way*
You go sort of thatta way, and then thatta way,"
A city map disclosed no Wade Street* Maps belonging
to a local abstractor helped not a whit* "Insurance maps
are in more detail." someone advised*" Wade Street," mused
the young woman at the desk, "Fve heard of it* We have
written a policy for someone there* The head of the
department was new to the city, but he was ea; er to
help* After about five minutes search from wall maps
to bound volumes of blocks and back again it appeared
that "Wade Street" more frequently known as "Washington
Street" meanders wanderingly from Silver Street, in the
colored section out to the "Gorge Addition" inhabited by
low economic level whites*