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Title: Spencer family slum house, exterior
Alternative Title: Housing Authority Photo Collection;
Creator: Nadel, Leonard
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: 1951
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: Exterior view of slum housing which is home to Mr. & Mrs. Joe Spencer and their four children. The house, which is approximately 160 square feet, has no plumbing, no gas, no toilet, and ceilings which are only 5'8" high.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00033558
Housing Authority Collection;
GPC_b33_f1; A-006-255 4x5
CARL0000035580
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1057
Subject: Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, California
Poverty--California--Los Angeles
Wooden-frame houses--California--Los Angeles
Poor families--California--Los Angeles
Housing Authority Collection photographs

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