Items and Collections

Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Photograph Collection

More About This Collection

Creator
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles

Date of Original
1940/1959

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.

Metadata URL
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt7c602472

Original Collection
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Photograph Collection

Contributing Institution
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research

Rights

Use quotation marks to search as a phrase
Use "+" before a term to make it required (Otherwise results matching only some of your terms may be included)
Use "-" before a word or phrase to exclude
Use "OR", "AND", and "NOT" (must be capitalized) to create complex boolean logic
You can use parentheses in your complex expressions
Truncation and wildcards are not supported

This Search	Will Find
“Montgomery Bus Boycott”	Records that have the exact phrase Montgomery Bus Boycott
Albany OR Augusta +integration	Records with the word integration that also contain the words Albany and/or Augusta
King -Martin	Records with the name King but not the name Martin
“Freedom Rides” AND Carter	Records containing the phrase “Freedom Rides” and the name Carter
Selma AND (Lewis OR Williams)	Records containing the words Selma and Lewis or Selma and Williams

Subject Pacoima (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Clear All

No results found for your search

Try modifying your search

Use fewer keywords to start, then refine your search using the links on the left.

Items and Collections

Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Photograph Collection

More About This Collection

Search Constraints

Search Results

No results found for your search

Try modifying your search