Resident of Hooverville hangs wash to dry, Los Angeles, 1930s
Item Overview
- Title
- Resident of Hooverville hangs wash to dry, Los Angeles, 1930s
- Date Created
- 1930s
- Date
- 1930/1939
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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A prominent Los Angeles shanty town, or “Hooverville,” was located on a five-acre vacant lot on Alameda and Firestone during the early 1930s, the height of the Great Depression, populated by homeless people and families. This particular Hooverville was located on 8445 S. Alameda Street.
An unidentified man hangs his laundry to dry beside his home. - Caption
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Handwritten on negative: “Shanty Town” – 8445 S. Alameda
Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles, Shanty Town, 8445 S. Alameda
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.032668
- Latitude
- -118.238776
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Tents--California--Los Angeles
Squatter settlements--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_5916
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cw1m3
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. - License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .