Photograph caption May 25, 1944 reads, “Spurring a campaign to cleanup ‘Little Tokio’ [sic], where more than 79,800 persons are now quartered in overcrowded conditions once occupied by Japanese, Mayor Fletcher Bowron is shown when he made a visit to the district which is within sight of the City Hall tower. The mayor; Dr. George M. Uhl, city health officer, and Nicola Giulli, chairman of the City Housing Authority, are talking to one of the many families living in district.” The group is pictured in front of a Shinto Shine, left abandoned when Japanese residents were forcibly removed from their homes and sent to camps for the duration of World War II.
Bowron, Fletcher,--1887-1968 Giulli, Nicola Uhl, George M Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.) Shinto shrines--California--Los Angeles Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Families--California--Los Angeles Mayors--California--Los Angeles Children African Americans Dogs Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, California--Employees Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.) Bronzeville (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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