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Title
City Housing Authority hands checks to Governor, Mayor
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1956
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated January 5, 1956 reads, "Miss Barbara Rosien, assistant executive director of the City Housing Authority, hands check for $798,348.63 to Governor Goodwin J. Knight (left) and one for $180,717.81 to Mayor Norris Poulson. Checks were shares of assets from final liquidation of Veterans Temporary Emergency Housing program."
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 35 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00096159
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 99.
CARL0005062806
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33940
Subject
Poulson, Norris,--1895-1982
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, California--Employees
Los Angeles (Calif.).--Housing Department
Mayors--California--Los Angeles
Municipal officials and employees--California--Los Angeles
Governors--California
Civil service
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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