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Title: Children at Jordan Downs Housing Project
Alternative Title: Shades of L.A. Photo Collection
Contributor: Shades of L.A. is an archive of photographs representing the contemporary and historic diversity of families in Los Angeles. Images were chosen from family albums and include daily life, social organizations, work, personal and holiday celebrations, and migration and immigration activities. Made possible and accessible through the generous support of the Security Pacific National Bank, Sunlaw Cogeneration Partners, Photo Friends, California Council for the Humanities, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and educational use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/orderinguse.html for additional information.
The contents of this collection are restricted to personal, research, and non-commercial use. The Library cannot share the personal and/or contact information of the donors, their descendants, or associates who contributed photographs and oral histories to the collection.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Image is a reproduction.; Published on page 21 of Shades of L.A. New York : The New Press, c1996.
Debra, second from right, with a group of friends outside the Jordan Downs Housing Project in Watts, Los Angeles. In the 1940's and 1950's, Los Angeles public housing reflected the progressive ideals of housing reformers and included racially integrated projects.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;17 x 24 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00001539
Shades of L.A. Collection; Shades of L.A.: African American Community
S-000-173 120
CARL0005001099
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/80647
Subject: Jordan Downs (Housing project : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Children--California--Los Angeles
Public housing--California--Los Angeles
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Shades of L.A. Collection photographs
Shades of L.A. African American photographs
Group portraits
Time Period: 1951-1960
Source: Hobson, Darrell.

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