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Title: Homeless on "Junkies Row"
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Ramsess, Akili-Casundria
Date Created and/or Issued: 1989
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: Hanging out on "Junkies Row," one of the many back streets where "crack heads" pass the time and take drugs. The primary mode of AIDS transmission among minorities is IV drug abuse, officials say. The Homeless Outreach Project is trying to distribute condoms and bleach for skid row people. Dated May 21, 1989.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00056019
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Homeless
CARL0000059247
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21165
Subject: Homeless Outreach Project (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Homeless persons--California--Los Angeles
Homelessness--California--Los Angeles
Drug abuse--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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