Homeless family outside their tent in a Hooverville, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Title: Homeless family outside their tent in a 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

Description: 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.
Five children stand beside who is most likely their mother in front of a roadside tent.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Hoovertown (destruction of)

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Homeless families--California--Los Angeles County
Depressions--California--Los Angeles
Squatter settlements--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_9622
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dhqnr
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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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .