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Title: Cardboard shantytowns
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mendoza, Javier
Date Created and/or Issued: 1987
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: Elaborate cardboard shantytown at Sixth Street and Towne Avenue is one target of L.A.P.D. Chief Daryl Gates' pre-summer drive to clear downtown L.A. streets of vagrants. Photo dated May 19, 1987.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00050202
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Homeless
CARL0000054459
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18320
Subject: Homeless persons--California--Los Angeles
Squatter settlements--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Sidewalks--California--Los Angeles
Sixth Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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