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Description:: View of unemployment settlement at 84th & Alameda Sts. during the Los Angeles Depression. Warner Brothers water tower is visible in left background. "For Sale" sign is distantly visible in center.
Date:: [between 1929-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “Reasons Why Los Angeles Citizens Should Vote for School Bonds Tomorrow: Vote for School Bonds!,” Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 1935: 8.
Date:: November 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Reported in: “Tent will be temple: First Baptist congregation undaunted by disaster, to carry on today,” Los Angeles Times, 5 May 1935: 14.
Date:: May 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Tent at a Boy Scout Rally in Griffith Park. There are cots inside the tent and a carved animal posted on top. West's shadow is visible at the foreground of the photograph.
Date:: [about 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of a teacher with a student holding a handmade sign that reads in English, “VOTE SCHOOL BONDS MARCH 20”. They are inside the tent that serves as the school’s classroom, which is the reason they are canvasing for school bonds. The Los Angeles Times newspaper reports indicate that school bonds would fund brand new fireproof and earthquake-proof buildings to house Los Angeles schools.
Date:: November 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of several soldiers standing around their camp set up in Agricultural Park (current day Exposition Park). In the foreground at center, a soldier stands with his back to the camera. To the left of him, a large camp stove sits on the ground. Behind the stove, a cook stands leftmost and faces right. To the right of him, a soldier stands, facing right. Behind them, a soldier sits in to front of a tent, which extends out-of-frame at left. In the distance at right, a couple of men walk through the camp. Tents stand in a row behind them.
Date:: 1900
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Scoutmaster, Ed Saxton, pauses at the opening of a tent at a Boy Scout Rally. He wears a shirt with a patch on the arm that features a shape with an "R" at the center.
Date:: [about 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Dilapidated conditions of public schools are shown to voters to encourage them to support school bonds. The Federal government has proposed adding $10,139,000 if the bonds are approved in the election.
Date:: November 12, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph of unidentified Los Angeles school children sitting at desks studying, while their teacher observes. Their classroom is located in a tent, which makes it even more difficult to concentrate on hot, sunny days. The Los Angeles Times newspaper reports indicate that school bonds would fund brand new fireproof and earthquake-proof buildings to house Los Angeles schools.
Date:: November 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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