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Title: The habitations of the unemployed in Los Angeles County, 1931-1932
Contributor: W.S.M
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932-03
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: A collection of photographs taken at the sites of several temporary encampments throughout Los Angeles County during the Great Depression. Several of these images show a "Hoover Town", or Hooverville, in the Graham neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Title from title page. Each photograph is accompanied by a typewritten caption supplied by the Los Angeles County Health Department describing the site.
Type: Image
Extent: 1 p. ; 32 gelatin silver prints
Identifier: photCL 396 volume 1
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/7811
Language: English
Subject: Depressions--1929--California
Clotheslines--California--Los Angeles County
Children--California--Los Angeles County
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles County
Huts--California--Los Angeles County
Tents--California--Los Angeles County
Squatter settlements--California--Los Angeles County
Photograph albums. (aat)
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Duarte (Calif.)
Glendale (Calif.)
Santa Clarita (Calif.)
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Whittier (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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