Southern California housing reports and photographs collection
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Scope and Content
The Southern California housing reports and photographs collection consists of reports, photographs, studies, housing authority materials, and a speech, 1937-1972, related to the problem of affordable housing in Los Angeles. Their authors include the Los Angeles City Housing Authority, the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, and the Claremont Colleges. Of particular interest are the WPA reports undertaken by such Los Angeles City agencies as the Housing Authority regarding the state of housing for the poor in Los Angeles at the end of the Depression Era.
Also of value are the photographs, for they provide visual evidence of slum housing in Los Angeles in the 1940s, although their photographers are not identified. Those in folder 8 all bear the date "1941," as well as captions describing their subject, on the scrapbook page on which they are mounted. The photographs in folder 7 most probably date from this time as well and are labeled on their back.
Dates
- Creation: 1937 - 1972
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
The use of archival materials for on-site research does not constitute permission from the California Social Welfare Archives to publish them. Copyright may not have been assigned to the California Social Welfare Archives, and the researcher is instructed to obtain permission to quote from or publish manuscripts in the CSWA's collections from the copyright holder.
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Southern California housing reports and photographs collection consists of reports, photographs, studies, housing authority materials, and a speech, 1937-1972, related to the problem of affordable housing in Los Angeles. The reports were authored by the Los Angeles City Housing Authority, the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, and the Claremont Colleges. The photographs provide visual evidence of slum housing in Los Angeles in the 1940s.
Subject
- Claremont Colleges. Program in Public Policy Studies -- Archives (Organization)
- Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, California -- Archives (Organization)
- Los Angeles (Calif.). Department of City Planning -- Archives (Organization)
- Los Angeles County Coordinating Councils. Executive Board -- Archives (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Aliso Village (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photographs
- Estrada Courts (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photographs
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Photographs
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Pueblo del Rio (Long Beach, Calif.) -- Photographs
- Ramona Gardens (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photographs
- Rose Hill Courts (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photographs
Topical
- Title
- Finding aid for the Collection of Southern California housing reports and photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jane Adler, Clay Stalls
- Date
- 2000 January 27
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu