Photograph snipe reads, “From City Housing Authority Roger C. Johnson. Undercaption for LITTLE TOKYO CLEANUP (exclusive pose). A notice to abate overcrowded and unhealthy conditions was posted by Mayor Fletcher Bowron today as the start of a campaign to clean up conditions in Little Tokyo, formerly occupied by the Japanese Americans, but now providing homes for thousands of war workers. Watching the mayor is Niola Giulii, chairman of the City Housing Authority.” Photograph is date stamped May 27, 1944.
Bowron, Fletcher,--1887-1968 Giulii, Nicola Squatter settlements--California--Los Angeles Poor families--California--Los Angeles Families--California--Los Angeles Mayors--California--Los Angeles Children--California--Los Angeles Children Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, California--Employees Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, California
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