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Title: Smith family posed in their one room 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
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: Helen Smith and her six children pose in their one room apartment, where 8 people sleep in three beds. The room is 15x15 feet and has a toilet and shower built as an extension to the house. The house has hot water and rents for $45 per month plus utilities. It has been flooded out twice in recent storms. The average salary of the father, Frank, is $50 per week. Frank stays in town to be able to get to work by 6 a.m. The house has been condemned by the Board of Health and the family is about to be evicted by the sheriff. They will be relocated to Rose Hill Housing Project.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00033667
Housing Authority Collection;
GPC_b30_f4; A-005-545 4x5
CARL0000035756
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1400
Subject: Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Poor families--California--Los Angeles
Poverty
Eviction--California--Los Angeles
Housing Authority Collection photographs

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