Officials order destruction of Hooverville, Los Angeles, circa 1940
Item Overview
- Title
- Officials order destruction of Hooverville, Los Angeles, circa 1940
- Date Created
- [circa 1940]
- Date
- 1940
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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No date was provided on the negative sleeve or negative; however, mass destruction of Hoovervilles was ordered in the early 1940s in the Greater Los Angeles area.
Homeless men and women sit on beds set beside the road. Police officers are seen in the background.
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.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Homeless persons--California--Los Angeles
Squatter settlements--California--Los Angeles
Depressions--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_9623
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dhqp8
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- 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 .