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Title: Critical housing shortage
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945
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: S/Sgt. and Mrs. Tom Winfield are greeted by a No Vacancy sign in Santa Monica on July 30, 1945. They are registered with the Housing Officer of the Army Air Forces Redistribution Station No. 3 for help in locating a furnished apartment or house. Thousands of veterans who went through the hell of battle returned from the war but found no homes.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00041422
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 10235.
CARL0000045250
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13060
Subject: Winfield, Tom
Housing--California--Santa Monica
Homeless veterans--California--Santa Monica
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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