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 Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia 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. A man swings an ax over a pile of scrap lumber in front of his home. This photograph appears with the article, 'THEN: Hooverville--Refuge for L.A.'s Homeless in Depression Years," Los Angeles Times, 15 Jun 1987: C1. Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles, Shanty Town, 8445 S. Alameda Handwritten on negative: “Shanty Town” – 8445 S. Alameda Text from newspaper caption: Resident of Los Angeles' Hooverville in the 1930s chops up some scrap lumber to be used as firewood.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5917 ark:/21198/zz002cw1nm
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Homeless persons--California--Los Angeles Squatter settlements--California--Los Angeles
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