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Title: Slum dwelling in Los Angeles, 1941
Contributor: Joseph, Andrée M
Date Created and/or Issued: 1941-09-02
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Library Exhibits Collection
Rights Information: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
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USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California. California Social Welfare Archives. Frances Feldman Collection
specol@usc.edu
Description: Photograph of a slum dwelling in Los Angeles, being torn down under a program by Juanita Miller, a caseworker who worked with University of Southern California Social Work professor Frances Feldman, to identify families eligible for new government-built housing. Photograph album page labelled "Rosehill Courts, demolition ceremonies, 9-2-41." Verso (not shown) is pre-demolition. The house is tilting severely. Two windows are visible on the front, a door on the side. The front yard is overgrown. Another house is visible to the left. Utility lines string over the house.
Type: image
Format: photograph : b&w
21 x 25 cm., mounted 24 x 30 cm.
photograph albums
photographs
Identifier: exbt-m22
exbt-BHE-022
http://doi.org/10.25549/exbt-m22
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/exbt-BHE-022.jpg
Language: English
Subject: African Americans
African Americans--History--1877-1964
Housing--California--Los Angeles
Slums--California--Los Angeles
Housing areas
Time Period: 1941-09-02
Place: California
Los Angeles
USA
residential sites: Rosehill Courts
Source: BHE-022 [Identifying Number]
Relation: Black History Month Exhibit, Doheny Memorial Library, Spring 1999
Library Exhibits Collection
exbt-m30
Provenance: University of Southern California. California Social Welfare Archives. Frances Feldman Collection

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