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Title: Poor housing
Alternative Title: Housing Authority Photo Collection;
Creator: Nadel, Leonard
Contributor: This is a reproduction made from the original print owned by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles.
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1951
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: Dilapidated row slum housing with potted plants on a makeshift shelf and a decrepit wooden chair. Photo description on back states: "contains 21 units. Each unit is two rooms (very tiny) and rents for $32 per month with utilities extra. There is no hot water or refrigerator andit is rat infested. Property is owned by the Sullivan family at 1529 E. 12th St." Photo dated: Apr. 14.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00066539
Housing Authority Collection;
GPC_b28_f4; A-004-105.45 4x5
CARL0000070397
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/875
Subject: Wooden-frame houses--California--Los Angeles
Poverty--California--Los Angeles
Row houses--California--Los Angeles
Housing Authority Collection photographs

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