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. Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles, Shanty Town, 8445 S. Alameda Handwritten on negative: “Shanty Town” – 8445 S. Alameda
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5921 ark:/21198/zz002cw1sp
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Squatter settlements--California--Los Angeles Huts--California--Los Angeles
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