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Title: Project's "Garden of the Month" contest winner
Alternative Title: Housing Authority Photo Collection;
Creator: Nadel, Leonard
Contributor: This is a reproduction made from the original print owned by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
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: Pueblo del Rio Housing Project consists of 57 two-storey brick and stucco buildings on a 17.5 acre site, built 1941-1942. Architects were: Paul R. Williams, Adrian Wilson, Gordon B. Kaufmann, Walter Wurdeman, Welton Becket and Richard J. Neutra; Ralph Cornell was the landscape architect. A young African American woman, winner of the "Garden of the Month" contest in the housing project waters her front yard.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00042833
Housing Authority Collection;
GPC_b31_f4; A-005-834.2 4x5
CARL0000046561
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1167
Subject: Pueblo Del Rio Housing Project (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Public housing--California--Los Angeles
Landscape irrigation--California--Los Angeles
Apartments--California--Los Angeles
Housing Authority Collection photographs
Williams, Paul R.,1894-1980
Wilson, Adrian
Kaufmann, Gordon B
Wurdeman, Walter C
Becket, Welton
Neutra, Richard Joseph,1892-1970
Cornell, Ralph D

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