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Title: Resident of Hooverville hangs wash to dry, Los Angeles, 1930s
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930s
1930/1939
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
A prominent Los Angeles shanty town, or “Hooverville,” was located on a five-acre vacant lot on Alameda and Firestone during the early 1930s, the height of the Great Depression, populated by homeless people and families. This particular Hooverville was located on 8445 S. Alameda Street.
An unidentified man hangs his laundry to dry beside his home.
Handwritten on negative: “Shanty Town” – 8445 S. Alameda
Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles, Shanty Town, 8445 S. Alameda
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5916
ark:/21198/zz002cw1m3
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Tents--California--Los Angeles
Squatter settlements--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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