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Title: Jordan Downs Housing Project
Alternative Title: Housing Authority Photo Collection;
Creator: Rothschild, Otto
Contributor: This is a reproduction made from the original print owned by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
Publication Information: Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, California
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Winners of the best lawn contest at the Jordan Downs Housing Project, announced at a Resident Council Flower Show on July 8, 1949. Mr. Griggs, Manager, reads off the list of winners while Essex Jenkins, President of the Resident Council, presents them with flower pots. The project is located at 9900 Grape Street in the Watts section of Los Angeles. It has 700 units.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00062391
Housing Authority Collection;
GPC_b33_f2; A-005-548 4x5
CARL0000066400
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3205
Subject: Jordan Downs (Housing project : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Public housing--California--Los Angeles
Contests--California--Los Angeles
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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