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Title: First family set to move into Carmelitos Housing Projects
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: There was joy in the household of James W. Hamilton of Compton, as he and his wife, Alice, and their two children, Gilbert and Coelette, prepared to move from their present home. The Hamilton's were the first family to move into one of the new modern units in the County Housing Authority's first low-rent housing project, Carmelitos. The housing projects are located at 5150 Atlantic Boulevard, in North Long Beach. Photo dated: October 24, 1940.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00045361
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5328.
CARL0000049255
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15678
Subject: Carmelitos Housing Project (Long Beach, Calif.)
Public housing--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Los Angeles County (Calif.).Housing Authority

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