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Title: Branstetter family slum apartment
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: 1952
Publication Information: Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, California
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: This slum apartment rents for $12.50 per week and has been home to the Noel Branstetter family for the last 2 1/2 years. The father, who is not a veteran, works in a nearby clay factory. There are 6 children in the family. The apartment is one room plus a small kitchen with no refrigerator. It has a toilet, a bath and hot water.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00033642
Housing Authority Collection;
GPC_b28_f5; A-004-106.12 4x5
CARL0000035679
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1178
Subject: Children--California--Los Angeles
Poverty
Poor families--California--Los Angeles
Poor children--California--Los Angeles
Housing Authority Collection photographs

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