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Model house worth $10,000 at the Los Angeles National Housing Exposition, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Model house worth $10,000 at the Los Angeles National Housing Exposition, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The terrace shows wide glass doors that open to the inside of the house. The patio has two small tables and a few chairs. A fireplace is built into the brick wall. A few potted plants rest on each side of the edge of the patio and a welcome mat sits at the beginning of the path.
Photograph appears with the headline, ""Times" Prize Home at the Los Angeles National Housing Exposition," Los Angeles Times, 26 May 1935: G8.
Text from newspaper caption: EXTERIOR (at top, right,) of $10,000 model house, furnished in the modern manner, and with a flexibility of room arrangements which has won wide commendation. A unitype steel frame is used, and the ravages of termites and other destructive elements have been guarded against. A detailed description of the furnishings will be found in the Real Estate Section today. Left, above, living terrace.
Text from negative sleeve: 1354 - Times Building at the Housing Exposition TIMES BUILDING HOUSING EXPO [stamped:] Jul 31 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7854
ark:/21198/zz002dfmpx
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Terraces--California--Los Angeles
Bricks
Outdoor furniture
Flowers--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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