Resident of Hooverville chops wood for fire, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description: 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.
A man swings an ax over a pile of scrap lumber in front of his home.
This photograph appears with the article, 'THEN: Hooverville--Refuge for L.A.'s Homeless in Depression Years," Los Angeles Times, 15 Jun 1987: C1.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles, Shanty Town, 8445 S. Alameda
Handwritten on negative: “Shanty Town” – 8445 S. Alameda
Text from newspaper caption: Resident of Los Angeles' Hooverville in the 1930s chops up some scrap lumber to be used as firewood.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.032668
Latitude: -118.238776
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Homeless persons--California--Los Angeles
Squatter settlements--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_5917
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cw1nm
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