Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Photograph Collection
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Creator
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
Date of Original
1940/1959
Subject
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
Pacoima (Los Angeles, Calif.)
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Neighborhood--California--Los Angeles
Housing--California--Los Angeles
Discrimination in housing--California--Los Angeles
Housing developments--California--Los Angeles
City planning--California--Los Angeles
Community centers--California--Los Angeles
Municipal services--California--Los Angeles
Quonset huts
Veterans--California--Los Angeles
Soldiers' homes--California--Los Angeles
African Americans--Housing--California--Los Angeles
People
Wilkinson, Frank, 1914-2006
Holtzendorff, Howard
Bowron, Fletcher, 1887-1968
Poulson, Norris, 1895-1982
Location
United States, California, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, 34.05223, -118.24368
Medium
photographs
Type
StillImage
Description
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Photograph Collection is comprised of 225 black and white photographs, which were produced by the Los Angeles Housing Authority during the 1940s and 1950s. These photographs depict images of public housing projects such as Elysian Park Heights (Chavez Ravine), Rose Hill Courts, Pueblo del Rio, Aliso Village, Hacienda Village, William Mead Homes, Estrada Courts, Ramona Gardens, Basilone Homes and Rodger Young Village. Also included in the collection are photographs of public housing officials Frank Wilkinson and Howard Holtzendorff, housing advocate Monsignor Thomas O'Dwyer, and municipal officials including Los Angeles Mayors Fletcher Bowron and Norris Poulson. Additionally represented here are powerful images of Los Angeles slum conditions during the 1940s.
The civil rights material in the collection includes a photograph of a home with a note on the photograph referring to the restrictive housing covenants in place in Los Angeles at the time the photograph was taken.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
Original Collection
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
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