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Inquirer Photographer Tom Gralish's Pulitzer Prize winning photo essay on the homeless

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These photos originally published in The Inquirer Sunday Magazine on April 7, 1985.

In their beards and heavy coats, some of the homeless look as if they have stepped out of the past, ragged Confederate ghosts on modern city streets. Inquirer Magazine, Sunday, April 7, 1985.
In their beards and heavy coats, some of the homeless look as if they have stepped out of the past, ragged Confederate ghosts on modern city streets. Inquirer Magazine, Sunday, April 7, 1985.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer

Editor's Note: This week’s story on the homeless represents the third major report that we have done in the magazine on the subject. This year, Tom Gralish provides photographic evidence that the homeless are still with us. We know there are readers who just don't want to hear about it anymore, who have come to terms with the fact that in late 20th-century America, we have a significant number of human beings who live in the streets of our cities like dogs.

(David Boldt, editor of the Inquirer Magazine)

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