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Title: Portsmouth Homes Housing Project
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
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: View of Portsmouth Homes Housing Project, returning veterans' housing located at Gaffey and 17th Streets, San Pedro. It was originally built as temporary war housing. It consisted of 22 buildings with 128 units built on 21 acres and housed an estimated population of 600. It was built at a cost of $508,781. Architects were Kenneth Wing, Ralph Flewelling, and R. Benedict Brout. Landscape architect was Fred Barlow, Jr. The management office was located at 2323 Portsmouth Road, San Pedro. The development was initially occupied May 1, 1945.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00062430
Housing Authority Collection;
GPC_b30_f3; A-005-379 4x5
CARL0000066387
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/937
Subject: Portsmouth Homes Housing Project (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Public housing--California--Los Angeles
World War, 1939-1945
Veterans--United States
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Housing Authority Collection photographs
Wing, Kenneth
Flewelling, Ralph C
Brout, R. Benedict
Barlow, Fred,Jr

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