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Title: Officials order destruction of Hooverville, Los Angeles, circa 1940
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1940]
1940
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 Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
A group of men, at least one of them a police officer, watch as a Los Angeles shantytown is burned. A large plume of smoke rises from the flames.
No date was provided on the negative sleeve or negative; however, mass destruction of Hoovervilles was ordered in the early 1940s in the Greater Los Angeles area.
Text from negative sleeve: Hoovertown (destruction of)
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9619
ark:/21198/zz002dhqj6
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Homeless persons--California--Los Angeles
Squatter settlements--California--Los Angeles
Depressions--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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