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Title: Poor family gazes at burned out home
Alternative Title: Housing Authority Photo Collection;
Creator: Stoumen, Louis Clyde
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: Circa 194-
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: An impoverished couple gaze in disbelief at the charred frame of their house. An icebox stands in the ruins with its casing and doors reduced to charcoal. A metal frying pan rests on top ready for use.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00066577
Housing Authority Collection;
GPC_b29_f4; A-005-086 4x5
CARL0000070576
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/742
Subject: Fires--California--Los Angeles
Wooden-frame houses--Fires and fire prevention--California--Los Angeles
Wooden-frame houses--California--Los Angeles
Urban poor--California--Los Angeles
Housing Authority Collection photographs

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