Officials order destruction of Hooverville, Los Angeles, circa 1940
Item Overview
- Title
- Officials order destruction of Hooverville, Los Angeles, circa 1940
- Date Created
- [circa 1940]
- Date
- 1940
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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A group of men, at least one of them a police officer, watch as a Los Angeles shantytown is burned. A large plume of smoke rises from the flames.
No date was provided on the negative sleeve or negative; however, mass destruction of Hoovervilles was ordered in the early 1940s in the Greater Los Angeles area. - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Hoovertown (destruction of)
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Homeless persons--California--Los Angeles
Squatter settlements--California--Los Angeles
Depressions--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_9619
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dhqj6
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. - License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .