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| Series I. Projects related to housing and urban redevelopment, 1947-1998,
undated
3 Linear
Feet
(6 boxes)
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| The series consists primarily of negatives, contact prints, and notes that Nadel
produced while working for the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) in
the 1940s and 1950s. In addition to documentation of HACLA's public housing projects,
there are also photographic surveys of the city's slums and historic areas targeted by
the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) for demolition and revitalization.
Additionally, there are photographs of the planning meetings of city officials and
architects, tours, hearings, and conferences. See Series II for Nadel's extensive
documentation of the Pueblo del Rio and Aliso Village projects.
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| File titles are loosley derived from Nadel's notes jotted on the manilla or glassine
envelopes containing the negatives and contact prints. Consequently, some titles may
include language now considered to be outdated or biased.
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| Arrangement |
| Arranged in three subseries: Series I.A. Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles,
1948-1997; Series I.B. Community Redevelopment Agency, 1948-1998; Series I.C. Various
subjects, undated.
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Series I.A. Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, 1948-1997,
undated
1.5 Linear
Feet
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Leonard Nadel photographs for the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles,
1948-1997
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The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) was established in 1938 by
City of Los Angeles Resolution No. 1241. HACLA is one of the oldest public housing
authorities in the United States, and currently one of the largest. Agencies such as
HACLA grew out of the federal Housing Act of 1937 (P.L. 75-412). Under the terms of
the act, public housing was to be built and owned by state-chartered and locally
governed public housing authorities (PHAs). While public housing was built with
federal funding, it was meant to be sustained by tenant rents, which meant that tenant
income levels had to be high enough to cover the rents charged. However, there was a
cap on tenant income to keep public housing from competing with the private market.
Nevertheless, the populations of early public housing developments were frequently
made up of white working-class or middle-class families. The Housing Act also
stipulated that an unsafe or unsanitary housing unit had to be eliminated for each new
unit built. This provision gave rise to the practice that became known as "slum
clearance."
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In 1940, the Lanham Act stopped the building of low-rent of public housing in order
to create housing for defense workers, and also gave such workers priority for
existing public housing units. The Housing Act of 1949 (P.L. 81-171) resumed the
low-rent public housing program. While the resultant federal policy goal was to
provide "a decent home and suitable living environment for every American family," it
also authorized the Urban Renewal program which codified the slum clearance policy of
the 1937 Federal Housing act. It also stipulated that communities were required to
give preference for public housing units to families displaced by urban renewal. These
changes – a lower income threshold and the need to those displaced by slum clearance -
meant that the populations of housing projects began to shift from white families to
families of color. Nadel's photographic documentation begins at this early post-war
moment when the demographics of Los Angeles public housing was beginning to shift.
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The bulk of the subseries comprises negatives, contact prints, annotated envelopes,
and notes produced by Nadel as a documentary photographer for HACLA. From aerial and
panoramic views to close-range shots, Nadel documented not only the physical
environment and buildings, but also their inhabitants. A good portion of the material
focuses on individual families or tenants, affording a very personal portrait of slum
and project life in post-war Los Angeles. In addition to documentation of public
housing projects such as Avalon Gardens, Ramona Gardens, Basilone Homes, and the
unrealized Elysian Park Heights project, the subseries also contains extensive
documentation of Los Angeles slum areas, particularly those near downtown.
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Among the other HACLA-related material is a copy of There's
Nothing Sentimental About Your Cash Register, which consolidates HACLA's
8th, 9th, and 10th annual reports with accompanying photographs, and a copy of And Ten Thousand More, the 1949 University of Southern
California student film produced for HACLA. Also included is a small amount of
material related to Frank Wilkinson, the assistant director of HACLA; planning
meetings of city officials and architects, including Richard Neutra, Robert Alexander,
and Lloyd Wright; tours; hearings; and conferences. See Series II for Nadel's
extensive documentation of the Pueblo del Rio and Aliso Village projects.
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Arrangement |
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Arrangement is chronological by project or topic, with obviously related material,
mostly undated, occasionally included in a grouping. Nadel's original grouping of
material within each envelope is retained. The envelopes often contain a mixture of
subjects and projects, and each group is therefore classified according to the
preponderance of the visual materials contained within it. However, the notes on these
envelopes and the accompanying note cards do not always reflect the subject matter of
the negatives and prints contained in them.
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| box |
folder |
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1 |
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The 8th, 9th, and 10th consolidated annual report of the Housing Authority
of Los Angeles, 1948
1
reports
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Spiral-bound annual report titled There's Nothing
Sentimental about your Cash Register. Research by Los Angeles City
Planning Commission and Los Angeles City Health Department. Photographs by Leonard
Nadel, Thomas Barnett, Helen Brush, Los Angeles Daily
News, Gene Daniels, Tyler Redd, Julius Shulman, Spence Air Photos, and
Louis Clyde Stoumen.
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folder |
| 14 |
1 |
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And Ten Thousand More, 1949
1
item
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And Ten Thousand More
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The title of the film And Ten Thousand More refers
to the number of new housing units that were needed in Los Angeles when the film was
made in 1951. It was produced by HACLA as an argument for the financing of
low-income public housing. The storyline records a newspaper reporter's visits to
the slums in central Los Angeles and contrasts the conditions he finds there with
those of the city's pre–World War II era housing projects. Directors/Producers:
Algernon G. Walker, Gene Petersen. Narrator: Chet Huntley. Cast: Harold C.
Hillhouse.
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The original [?] film was reformatted as a vidoecassette in 1997. Videocassette
labeled: University of Southern California Student Film And
Ten Thousand More (1949) First Amendment Foundation. Narrated by Chet
Huntley. Edited by Edward Lybeck and Frank Wilkinson.
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Slums, 1948-1952,
undated
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Includes extensive documentation of slum areas in and near downtown Los Angeles,
often by specific street address. Note cards include information regarding names of
occupants, family composition, wages earned, rents paid, and living conditions.
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folder |
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1 |
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Mixed use areas (industrial and housing), 1948 August
31
items
(30 negatives, 1
envelope)
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Views of housing in downtown Los Angeles, housing situated in close proximity to
construction zones and industrial areas, and possibly scenes in Chávez Ravine. On
envelope: Chávez Ravine / Industrial congestion / (Housing report).
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2 |
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Tent living on Rose Hill, 1948 October
14
13
items
(11 negatives, 1 envelope, 1 note
card)
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Documents the homes of the Perea (2701 Amethyst St.), and Allman (4000 Amethyst
St.) families. On envelope: Slums - tents (Rose Hill).
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3 |
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219 N. Olive St., 1948 October
21
6
items
(5 negatives, 1
envelope)
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Exterior, interior, bedroom, kitchen, and inhabitants. |
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4 |
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Burned out housing, circa
1948
5
items
(4 negatives, 1
envelope)
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Includes one interior scene with a woman and girl washing. On envelope: Fire
(housing).
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5 |
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Chaney family, Hewitt St., 1950 April
21
2
items
(1 negative, 1
envelope)
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6 |
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Fickett Hollow slums, 1950 July
22
7
items
(3 negatives, 3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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Fickett Hollow area of Boyle Heights. Also includes a view of tenements behind
City Hall.
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Aliso St., 1952 |
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folder |
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7 |
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Demolition progress, 1952 June
2
5
items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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8 |
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Children, Aliso Alley, 1952 July
15
3
items
(1 print, 1 negative, 1
envelope)
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9 |
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Fire, Aliso, 1952 September
12
6
items
(3 negatives, 2 prints, 1
envelope)
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Firefighters putting out a fire. |
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10 |
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205 N. Flower, 1952 June
9
3
items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
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11 |
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Ord St. near City Hall, 1952 June
12
3
items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
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Mission Road 1952 |
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folder |
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12 |
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Mission Rd., 1952 July
23
3
items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
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13 |
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319 N. Mission Rd., 1952 August
22
3
items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
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Rehabilitating housing. |
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14 |
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Seventh and Mateo streets, 1952 August
22
3
items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
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15 |
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Seventh and Mateo and W. Third and San Pedro streets, 1952 July
17
10
items
(5 negatives, 2 contact prints, 3
envelopes)
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Includes views of Chávez Ravine. On envelope: Chávez (old ones). |
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16 |
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730 W. Third St., 1952 July
17
4
items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 2
envelopes)
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View of tenement with outhouses. |
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17 |
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Bauchet St., 1952 August
22
5
items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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Rear patio with boy standing under laundry lines. |
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18 |
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Shacks and outhouse, undated
8
items
(4 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1
envelope, 1 note card)
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Shows one- and -two-story housing, an outhouse, and housing demolition. On
envelope: Slums.
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19 |
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Slum house, Bowery, undated
5
items
(4 negatives, 1
envelope)
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Includes views of Jack's Place liquor store and Morning Star Mission
storefronts.
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20 |
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Slums (location unidentifed), undated
20
items
(19 negatives, 1
envelope)
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Public housing projects, 1949,
undated
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Includes photographs of Ramona Gardens, Avalon Gardens, and Basilone Homes for
Veterans.
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Ramona Gardens is an historically Hispanic public housing development in Boyle
Heights. It was designed by Housing Architects Associated (Ralph Flewelling, George
J. Adams, Lloyd Wright, Lewis Eugene Wilson, and Eugene Weston Jr.). Building began
in early 1940 and its first tenants moved in in January, 1941.
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Rose Hill Courts, located at 4446 Florizel St. in Monteceto Heights was originally
built as housing for World War II defense workers and was completed in 1942. After
the war it became public housing.
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Avalon Gardens is located in the Green Medows area of South Los Angeles. Built in
1941 for military families and veterans, it was opened to low income residents in
1947, although units did not become available until the 1950s due to the ongoing
housing shortage.
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Barracks for the US Army Corp of Engineers who were building Hansen Dam in 1940
occupied the site that became the racially integrated Basilone Homes for Veterans
public housing project in Pacoima, which opened in 1947.
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folder |
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21 |
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Photo exhibition at Ramona Gardens, 1949 March
7
7
items
(6 negatives, 1
envelope)
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The images depict residents viewing an exhibition of Nadel's (?) work depicting
community life and activities in Ramona Gardens.
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Ramona Gardens is an historically Latino public housing development in Boyle
Heights. It was designed by Housing Architects Associated (Ralph Flewelling,
George J. Adams, Lloyd Wright, Lewis Eugene Wilson, and Eugene Weston Jr.).
Building began in early 1940 and its first tenants moved in in January, 1941.
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22 |
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Rose Hill Courts, Avalon Gardens, undated
13
items
(6 negatives, 5 contact prints, 1
envelope, 1 note card)
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Primarily views of mixed groups of children playing outdoors. |
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Rose Hill Courts, located at 4446 Florizel St. in Monteceto Heights was
originally built as housing for World War II defense workers and was completed in
1942. After the war it became public housing.
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23 |
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Avalon Gardens, undated
10
items
(9 negatives, 1
envelope)
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Depicts an outdoor carnival. Also included is a portrait of Georgia Ferris, a
white girl.
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Avalon Gardens is located in the Green Medows area of South Los Angeles. Built in
1941 for military families and veterans, it was opened to low income residents in
1947, although units did not become available until the 1950s due to the ongoing
housing shortage.
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Veterans housing, 1949,
undated
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folder |
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24 |
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Inter-council conference, undated
3
items
(2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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Materials displayed on the walls relate to veterans housing. |
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25 |
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Basilone homes, 1949 January
12
18
items
(9 negatives, 8 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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Homes for veterans sign. People playing in the snow. Children making
snowman.
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Barracks for the US Army Corp of Engineers who were building Hansen Dam in 1940
occupied the site that became the racially integrated Basilone Homes for
Veterans public housing project in Pacoima, which opened in 1947.
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Civic Center area, 1950-1951,
undated
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Includes views of downtown Los Angeles's civic buildings and the slums in their
immediate vicinity.
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folder |
| 1 |
26 |
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View of City Hall and Federal Building, 1950 May
1
3
items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
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27 |
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Civic Center views, 1951 January
10
21
items
(10 negatives, 10 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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Views of Los Angeles taken from a tower; views of City Hall; and views of the Los
Angeles River.
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28 |
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Demolition, Civic Center, First Street, 1951 July
13
32
items
(16 negatives, 14 contact prints, 2
envelopes)
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29 |
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Tenements near City Hall, undated
4
items
(2 negatives, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
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Exterior views. Includes a view of the Los Angeles River. |
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San Pedro, 1950-1952 |
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folder |
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30 |
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Channel Heights, 1950 June
16
5
items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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View of housing with children playing on lawn. |
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The Channel Heights Housing Project was built for defense workers at the port of
San Pedro. It was designed by Richard Neutra in 1942.
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31 |
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Rancho San Pedro grading, 1952 July
24
11
items
(5 negatives, 5 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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S. Mesa to Centre and W. First to Second St. area. |
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Rancho San Pedro was constructed in 1942 for defense workers and was converted to
public housing in 1952.
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Elysian Park Heights project, 1950-1997,
undated
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Elysian Park Heights was HACLA's proposed public housing project meant to replace
the semi-rural, predominantly Mexican-American neighborhoods of La Loma, Palo Verde,
and Bishop and the surrounding hillside grazing lands in Chávez Ravine. In the
nineteenth-century, Chávez Ravine was owned by Julian Chávez, a rancher, landowner,
and local official. A pest house for smallpox sufferers, a Jewish cemetery, and
brick factories were also located in the ravine.
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By 1951, the area was home to over 1,800 families, many of whom owned their own
homes. Yet the ravine's proximity to downtown Los Angeles made it highly desirable
real estate, and a narrative of a poor, "blighted" community was spun by HACLA and
other players who wished to see the area redeveloped. HACLA began acquiring the land
in 1951 through both voluntary sales and the process of eminent domain, and most of
the existing properties were razed between 1952 and 1953.
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The planned public housing development, which would have converted the ravine's
housing from single-family homes to high- and –low-rise apartments and doubled the
number of families living in the area, was designed by Richard Neutra and Robert
Alexander. Yet, with the ravine vacated of most of its residents and original
housing, the tide turned in 1953 when Norris Poulson, an opponent of public housing,
was elected mayor of Los Angeles. Under the claim that public housing was
"un-American," the Elysian Park Heights project was halted before building began.
After an extended struggle over ownership the land was eventually purchased by the
city of Los Angeles under the condition that it be used for a "public purpose." More
years of wrangling over the land's development ensued until finally the definition
of "public purpose" was stretched to include the building of a baseball stadium.
Walter O'Malley, who was looking for a new home for the Brooklyn Dodgers, purchased
Chávez Ravine from the city in 1958, with the land consequently reverting to private
ownership.
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folder |
| 1 |
32 |
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Chávez views, 1950 April-1950
June
54
items
(27 negatives, 22 contact prints, 4
envelopes, 1 note card)
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Views of Chávez Ravine depict the rural nature of the area with animals grazing
on its open hillsides and unpaved roads leading to dense clusters of houses.
Includes views of Bishop Rd. and Effie St., Chávez Ravine Rd. and Lilac Terrace,
and Chávez Ravine Rd. Shot on 23 April, 1 May, and 6 June. Also includes views of
the city from the ravine. For the joined panorama (12-123 a-c) see Box 13, Folder
1.
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folder |
| 13 |
3 |
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Panoramas, 1950-1997,
undated
13
items
(11 photographic prints, 2
items)
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Two two-part panoramic photographs, and a third, single view, and eight small
joined panoramas (comprising two, three, or five photographs). The panoramas
depict the area before and during land grading. Also includes notes by Nadel on
Chávez Ravine and print-outs of Los Angeles Times
articles.
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| box |
folder |
| 1 |
33 |
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Panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles from Elysian Park, circa
1950
10
items
(4 negatives, 4 contact prints, 1
envelope, 1 note card)
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Looking towards City Hall. |
| box |
folder |
| 2 |
1 |
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View of City Hall, circa
1950
3
items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
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City Hall seen through palm trees in Chávez Ravine. |
| 2 |
2 |
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Dirt roads, Chávez, 1950 April
21
27
items
(12 negatives, 12 contact prints, 1
envelope, 2 note cards)
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Boys and girls outside and playing street baseball. Includes views of streets
(Effie St. and Brooks Ave., Davis and Curtis streets, Spruce and Effie streets);
houses; and a view of the hill looking towards the city.
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3 |
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Street scenes, 1950 April
23
5
items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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Children on dirt roads, one image includes a milk truck parked on the side of the
road. On envelope: Chávez Ravine: play areas, children, old man, landscapes, bad
streets.
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4 |
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Sheep grazing, 1950 April 29 and
1950 May 1
20
items
(14 negatives, 3 contact prints, 1
envelope, 2 note cards)
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Views of the hillsides and slopes of Chávez ravine; a shepherd and his sheep; and
two women talking in front of a quonset hut house. Includes negatives for the
seven joined panoramas of the ravine housed in Box 13, Folder 1. On envelope:
Views of Chávez Ravine.
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5 |
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Yolo Dr. and Pine St., circa
1950
5
items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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Children playing in streets; two girls sitting on the rear bumper of a car. |
| 2 |
6 |
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Robert Alexander with two kids, 1950 August
31
3
items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
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Architects' conference on Elysian Park, 1950 |
| box |
folder |
| 2 |
7 |
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Architects' conference, 1950 October
2
46
items
(11 negatives, 33 prints, 1
envelope, 1 note card)
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Architects depicted include Richard Neutra, Robert Alexander, Patterson, and
Mr. Cimino from the Development Division.
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8 |
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Chávez architects' conference, 1950
13
items
(12 negatives, 1
envelope)
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Participants include: Charles Waldman of HACLA; Reynald Jackson; Mr. Mayer,
Managment Director; Mr. Sweeting, Chief Project Planner; and Mr. Cimino,
Development Division.
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9 |
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Architects, 1950
5
items
(4 negatives, 1
envelope)
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Includes Richard Neutra, Robert Alexander, and Cimino. On envelope: Chávez
architect's conference: Neutra, Alex., Cimino.
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10 |
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Drafting department and development division, 1950 October
2
25
items
(12 negatives, 12 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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Occupational portraits of Pete Perez, Lou Clerging [?], Jack Thass [?], and Sam
Beckett.
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| 2 |
11 |
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Personnel, circa
1950
9
items
(8 negatives, 1
envelope)
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Portraits of Sid Grun [?], Clinton Arnold, Vicki Alonzo, Gracie, Botsy, Manny,
and Ignacio Lopez.
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| 2 |
12 |
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Portraits, circa
1950
5
items
(3 negatives, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
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Identified on envelope: Rosen, F. W. [Frank Wilkinson], Nadel, Cimino. Also
includes an unidentified woman.
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| 2 |
13 |
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Panorama of Lookout Mt. area, 1951 December
5
5
items
(3 negatives, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
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| 2 |
14 |
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Views and meetings, 1952,
undated
32
items
( 21 negatives, 10 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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Views of the ravine; images from a conference or hearing including speakers,
presenters, an installation shot of a wall display labeled "Growing Pains:
Problems of the Industrial City," and portraits of participants, including a
portrait of Tash Koshida (dated 21 May 1952). Also includes an image of a tenement
near City Hall. No manilla envelope.
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Demolition, 1952 |
| box |
folder |
| 2 |
15 |
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Chávez demolition work, 1952 June 12 and
1952 July 8
7
items
(3 negatives, 3 contact prints,1
envelope)
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Curtis St. near Paducah and La Loma streets. |
| 2 |
16 |
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Demolition, fires, and house moving, 1952 June
24
15
items
(7 negatives, 7 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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Includes homes and buildings being demolished, burned, or moved to new
sites.
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| 2 |
17 |
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Broad views of demolition, 1952 July
8
11
items
(4 negatives, 4 contact prints, 3
envelopes)
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Chávez Ravine, view from Curtis St. |
| 2 |
18 |
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Demolition in the ravine, circa
1952
14
items
(13 negatives, 1
envelope)
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Includes views of slopes with houses, children playing, and a ranchito. On
envelope: Chávez (old ones).
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19 |
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Mailboxes, 1952 July
8
3
items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
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Mabrina [?] and Effie streets. |
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20 |
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Elysian Park Heights trial, 1952 September
3
17
items
(6 negatives, 5 contact prints, 5
envelopes, 1 note card)
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On envelope: Elysian Garden Trail. Identified on envelope are: Carleton Williams
(Los Angeles Times), Magnus [?] White (Los Angeles Examiner), Welton Weber (Assistant City
District Attorney), and Clara McDonald. Possibly one of the eviction trails for
residents who refused to leave the ravine.
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21 |
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Mexican dance group at Palo Verde School, undated
34
items
(10 negatives, 22 contact prints, 1
envelope, 1 note card)
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22 |
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Portrait of an older Black man, undated
5
items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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On envelope: Chávez. |
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Frank Wilkinson, 1950-1997,
undated
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In 1952, Frank Wilkinson, the assistant director of HACLA, was accused by real
estate interests of being a Communist due to his championship of the proposed
Elysian Park Heights housing project. He refused to state his political affiliations
when under oath during hearings related to the matter and was fired from HACLA in
1953. He was a life-long civil liberties activist and a leading opponent of the
House Committee on Un-American Activities.
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folder |
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2 |
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Correspondence and articles, 1950-1997
10
items
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Letter from Nadel to Edward Roybal. Letter from Clarence R. Johnson to Wilkinson.
Letter from Wilkinson to Evelyn Nadel. Articles by Wilkinson and about
Wilkinson.
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23 |
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Wilkinson housing tour, undated
18
items
(10 negatives, 7 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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Annotations on envelope: NYC housing tour; Wilkinson housing tour. Many images
show Wilkinson surveying and climbing among demolition rubble.
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Hearings, publicity, 1951-1953 |
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folder |
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24 |
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Citizens Against Socialist Housing (CASH) and Mayor's
hearings, circa
1951-1953
27
items
(13 negatives, 13 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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CASH was led by Frederick Dockweiler, a lawyer active in Los Angeles and
California political issues, especially as an opponent of public housing
initiatives.
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On envelope: CASH and Mayor's hearings. |
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25 |
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Housing Authority campaign (television), 1952 June
2
7
items
(3 negatives, 3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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26 |
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Protesters picketing public housing, 1952 June
28
5
items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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Protesters, primarily women, carrying signs opposing public housing and Mayor
Bowron's policies. On envelope: Protest picketing. Margaret Hess is identified on
the envelope (as one of the protesters?).
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Series I.B. Community Redevelopment Agency, 1948-1998,
undated
1 Linear
Feet
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Leonard Nadel photographs of Community Redevelopment Agency projects,
1948-1998
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Created in 1948, the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (CRA)
was dedicated to revitalizing, refurbishing, and renewing economically depressed areas
of the city. Its formation was a direct result of the California Redevelopment Law of
1945, which was supported by a coalition of two groups with opposing desires -
advocates seeking downtown housing for low-income residents and business and real
estate interests promoting downtown commercial rejuvenation. Although Los Angeles
business community for the most part opposed the bill - the impact of urban decay on
commerce and industry, rather than the living conditions of the poor was their main
concern - the law did pass, and its required Planning Department study confirmed the
need for a redevelopment agency in Los Angeles. One of the CRA's first activities was
then to turn around and lobby for a change in the Community Redevelopment Law that
would separate redevelopment from public housing programs. In 1950, the passage of an
amendment to the law did just that, enabling the CRA to focus on business
redevelopment rather than public housing for downtown "blighted" and slum areas. AThe
CRA existed s an independent agency until 2011.
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The subseries contains Nadel's photographic documentation of several areas of Los
Angeles that the CRA targeted for commercial revitalization in the 1940s and 1950s,
such as Bunker Hill; the Temple Street area; Ann Street; and the Alameda Street area.
Nadel made meticulous photographic surveys, sometimes block by block, of the slums and
historic areas targeted for demolition and redevelopment. Documentation of the Bunker
Hill Renewal Project is particularly extensive. Also included is documentation of an
Urban Redevelopment Commission tour. In addition to black-and-white negatives and
contact prints, materials also include Nadel's original, annotated negative envelopes
and handwritten notes.
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Arrangement |
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Materials are arranged primarily by geographical area. Nadel's original grouping of
material within each envelope is retained. The envelopes often contain a mixture of
subjects and projects, and each group is therefore classified according to the
preponderance of the visual materials contained within it. However, the notes on these
envelopes and the accompanying note cards do not always reflect the subject matter of
the negatives and prints contained in them.
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Urban Redevelopment Commission, 1949-1955 |
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folder |
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27 |
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Tour, 1949 April
26,
59
items
(28 negatives, 29 contact prints, 2
envelopes)
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Participants included Brock, Sasesman [?], Rhea, and Holtzendorf. Also includes a
view of the Cole Hotel.
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28 |
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Santa Fe area, 1950 December
28
50
items
(23 negatives, 23 contact prints, 3
note cards, 1 envelope)
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Houses, backyards, and rooftop views of Damon, Mateo, E. Eighth, Santa Fe,
Enterprise, and Hunter streets.
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folder |
| 3 |
1 |
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Olympic area, 1950 December
29
46
items
(21 negatives, 21 contact prints, 3
note cards, 1 envelope)
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Houses and alleyways in Wilston, Elwood, Lawrence, and Channing streets. |
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2 |
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Parking lots and the Fourth St. ramp, 1955 August
9
24
items
(11 negatives, 12 envelopes, 1 note
card)
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Bunker Hill Renewal Project, 1951-1956 |
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The 133-acre Bunker Hill Urban Renewal Project, conceived as a project to raze the
once-stately Victorian neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles and to reinvent it as a
business district, was begun by the CRA in 1955. Currently bounded by First St. on
the north, Hill St. on the east, Fifth St. on the south, and the Harbor Freeway on
the west, Bunker Hill was developed as an upscale residential area beginning in
1867. The steep streets of the hill were initially accessed by horse-drawn carriage
service. In 1901, Angels Flight, a two-block funicular railway that ran up and down
a two block stretch of the hill, was opened for service.
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The Bunker Hill community thrived into the 1920s and 30s when the trolley lines of
the Pacific Electric Railway Company increasing began to lure its residents out to
the new "street car suburbs" such as Angelino Heights, Highland Park, and West
Hollywood. Movement out of the area was furthered by the development of Los
Angeles's freeway system which created easy access to the city from Beverly Hills,
Pasadena, and other new upscale areas. As the hill's wealthier residents departed,
the Queen Anne and Eastlake-style mansions they left behind were subdivided into
housing for pensioners and lower income workers arriving from the American Midwest,
Europe, and Mexico. With the building of new rooming houses and residence hotels the
area became ever more densely crowded. Landlords profited, but did little to
maintain their lodgings, and the hillside area further slide into decline as the
property owners turned a blind eye to the criminal element among their tenents.
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By 1955, in an effort to remove crime and poverty from a neighborhood that had
already been long-used as a setting for crime novels and film noir movies, the CRA
determined to clear Bunker Hill by ridding the area of the dilapidated buildings
that housed its 9,000 residents. For the hill's residents it was a slippery slope.
They were displaced without relocation assistance and the land was sold for private
and public civic development.
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Nadel documented conditions on Bunker Hill for the CRA between 1951 and 1956,
capturing its streets, traffic, residents, and interior and exterior housing
conditions. In so doing his photographs provided the CRA with the evidence it needed
to support the hill's redevelopment. The Bunker Hill Urban Renewal Project was
adopted by the city on March 31, 1959. It is the longest redevelopment project in
Los Angeles history.
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Notecards and annotations on the original envelopes contain information on housing
conditions, rents charged, and occupancy. There are also frequent observations on
the occupants including names, ages, occupations, length of tenancy, and other
family matters. Other general topics noted are land use, alleyways, traffic, and
street conditions.
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folder |
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3 |
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Bunker Hill scale model (Babcock report), 1951 January 17
12
items
(3 negatives, 6 contact prints, 2 note
cards, 1 envelope)
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Prints and negatives do not match. |
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4 |
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First to Fifth streets, Flower to Hill streets, 1951 March 1
71
items
(24 negatives, 23 contact prints, 22
envelopes, 2 note cards)
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For CRA study. |
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5 |
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First and Olive to Second and Hill streets area, 1952 April 14
21
items
(10 negatives, 10 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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| 3 |
6 |
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Bunker Hill, First, Second, Olive, and Hill streets area, 1952 June 5
7
items
(3 negatives, 3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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| 3 |
7 |
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Aerials, 1955 November 15
19
items
(18 negatives, 1
envelope)
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Includes six negatives of an older white couple on a porch and one negative of an
older white man leaning on a porch rail.
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| 3 |
8 |
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Fremont Ave., Figueroa St., 1955 September 16
41
items
(19 negatives, 20 envelopes, 2 note
cards)
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Also includes First, S. Olive, and Hill streets. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2,
1-17.
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9 |
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W. Second and Hope streets, 100 S. Olive St., 1955 September 21
6
items
(2 negatives, 1 note card, 3
envelopes)
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Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 22-23. |
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10 |
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122 S. Olive St., 1955 September 20
10
items
(4 negatives, 5 envelopes, 1 note
card)
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Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 18-21. Interior images with a woman and two little
girls.
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| 3 |
11 |
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W. Second St. area, 1955 September 21-1955 September
22
55
items
(26 negatives, 27 envelopes, 2 note
cards)
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Also includes views of First, Third, Olive, Figueroa, Flower, and other streets.
Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 24-44. Images include views of a school and
playground at Second and Hope streets; people sitting on park benches in an empty
lot; street conditions; and tenements.
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12 |
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134 Fremont Ave., 1955 September 21-1955 September
22
35
items
(17 negatives, 18
envelopes)
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Also includes First and Figueroa streets, 131 S. Olive Ct., 719 W. Second St.,
and 255 S. Bunker Hill. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 45a-53. Images of residents,
including children playing in areas behind housing and in empty lots.
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13 |
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Clay St., 1955 September 27
16
items
(7 negatives, 1 note card, 8
envelopes)
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Also includes Fourth, Olive, Hill, Second, and Third streets. Group numbered
Bunker Hill 2, 54-60. Images of housing, streets, parking lots, and Angels
Flight.
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| 3 |
14 |
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Figueroa St., 1955 September 29
13
items
(6 negatives, 7
envelopes)
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Includes 334 S. Figueroa, 350 S. Figueroa, W. Third and S. Figueroa, and 448 S.
Bunker Hill. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 61-66.
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| 3 |
15 |
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209 S. Olive St., 1955 September 29
25
items
(11 negatives, 12 envelopes, 2 note
cards)
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Also includes 345 S. Clay St. and 133 S. Hope St. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2,
67-77. Interior shots and living conditions, some including the residents.
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| 3 |
16 |
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Slums, 1955 September 30
22
items
(10 negatives, 11 envelopes, 1 note
card)
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Addresses and streets include 308 S. Flower; 217 S. Grand; 334 S. Figueroa; 135
S. Grand; 820 W. First; 355 S. Bunker Hill; and Clay St. Group numbered Bunker
Hill 2, 78-87a. Mostly interior shots, many with residents.
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17 |
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Substandard housing, 1955 October 5
24
items
(11 negatives, 12 envelopes, 1 note
card)
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Addresses include 245 S. Bunker Hill; 224 S. Olive; 209 S. Bunker Hill; 316 S.
Clay; 416 S. Grand; 218 S. Olive; 416 S. Grand; and 237 S. Flower. Group numbered
Bunker Hill 2, 88-98. Images include residents depicted in their interiors;
details of substandard conditions and decay.
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| 3 |
18 |
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Substandard and poor housing, 1955 October 6
17
items
(7 negatives, 8 envelopes, 2 note
cards)
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Addresses include 433 S. Hope; 119 S. Grand; 724 W. First; 314 S. Olive; and 237
S. Bunker Hill. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 99-105. Primarily interior
views.
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| 3 |
19 |
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Slums, stores, alleys, and street conditions, 1955 October 8-1955 October
10
36
items
(16 negatives, 17 envelopes, 2 note
cards, 1 note)
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Addresses and streets include W. First; 135 S. Olive; 120 S. Grand; 520-530 W.
First; 120 S. Bunker Hill; 125 S. Olive; 334 S. Figueroa (Sack Alley); alley at
Clay and W. Fourth; 332 S. Figueroa; 125 S. Olive; 119 S. Olive; 638 W. First; 315
S. Bunker Hill; and First and Olive. Includes street conditions viewed from 101 N.
Bunker Hill. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 106-121. File name is a compilation of
keywords written on the numerous envelopes.
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folder |
| 4 |
1 |
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Playgrounds, substandard, poor, and acceptable housing, traffic, and
general views, 1955 October 18
45
items
(21 negatives, 2 note cards, 22
envelopes)
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Addresses include 334 S. Figueroa; 502 W. First; 638 W. First; 330 S. Grand; 251
S. Olive; 515 W. Second; 447 S. Hope; 315 S. Olive ;350 S. Figueroa; 245 S.
Flower. Includes views of Sack Alley; traffic at Fourth and Hillside; S. Flower;
W. First and Third streets. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 122-139. File name is a
compilation of keywords written on the numerous envelopes.
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2 |
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General views, traffic, playgrounds, 1955 October 19
29
items
(14 negatives, 15
envelopes)
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View from W. Fifth and S. Figueroa looking northeast; traffic on S. Figueroa from
Fourth St. ramp looking north; ramp at Fourth; Fourth and S. Flower hillside;
playground at rear of 119 S. Olive; playground next to 334 S. Figueroa. Group
numbered Bunker Hill 2, 140-148. Views include parking lots and children sliding
down small dirt slopes on cardboard. File name is a compilation of keywords
written on the numerous envelopes.
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3 |
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Traffic, land use, housing (poor, substandard, slums) and street
conditions, shopping, and recreation, 1955 October 26
52
items
(25 negatives, 26 envelopes, 1 note
card)
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Views of traffic include W. Third from the Third St. tunnel and the intersection
of S. Figueroa and W. First. Housing addresses include 107 S. Bunker Hill; 700 W.
First; 255 S. Bunker Hill; 237 S. Flower; rear of 224 S. Olive; 316 S. Clay; 218
S. Olive; 314 S. Olive, 218 S. Bunker Hill, 133 S. Hope, 245 S. Flower, and 209 S.
Olive. Images documenting land use include 638 W. First from the rear; Clay St.
looking northwest from 328 Clay; and W. Second and S. Hill looking north. Also
included are street conditions at W. Third St. and S. Hope; the alleyway at Olive
Court; and views of shop fronts, children playing, and adults sitting along a
ledge in Pershing Square.
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Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 149-174. File name is a compilation of keywords
written on the numerous envelopes.
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4 |
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Traffic and general views, 1955 October 26
14
items
(6 negatives, 7 envelopes, 1 note
card)
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Views of traffic at W. First and S. Olive, and S. Olive, Fourth, and fifth
streets. General views taken from the Edison building looking north and from the
1100 block of Huntley Dr. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 175-179.
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5 |
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Housing (acceptable, poor, substandard) and street
conditions, 1955 October 31
30
items
(13 negatives, 14 envelopes, 3 note
cards)
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Housing addresses include 330 S. Grand; 416 S. Grand; 251 S. Olive; 248 S. Olive;
210 S. Flower; 337 S. Hope; 210 S. Grand; 237-9 S. Bunker Hill; 333 S. Clay; and
317 S. Olive. Street conditions are shown from 327 S. Hope looking north and at W.
Third St. and S. Olive looking west from Angels Flight. Also includes traffic at
the northeast corner of W. Second and S. Hope. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2,
180-192. File name is a compilation of keywords written on the numerous
envelopes.
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6 |
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Shopping, 1955 November 29
26
items
(12 negatives, 13 envelopes, 1 note
card)
|
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Shopping areas in and around Bunker Hill. Also includes views of Pershing Square;
Angels Flight; a general view from Bay and W. First looking sothwest; and street
conditions near the Second Street tunnel. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2,
193-204.
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| 4 |
7 |
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People, 1955 November 9
15
items
(7 negatives, 8
envelopes)
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People on Third St.; Grand St.; W. Fourth St.; and S. Clay St. People are
depicted outdoors; walking; shopping; sitting on park benches in an empty lot; and
reading. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 205-211.
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8 |
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County garage, 1956 January 12
6
items
(1 negative, 1 envelope, 4 note
cards)
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Located at W. Second and S. Hill streets. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 217a. |
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Temple area, 1948-1957,
undated
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Includes interior and exterior residential views of the 180-acre Temple Street area
on the northwest border of Bunker Hill which was a fashionable residential
neighborhood in the late-nineteenth century.
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folder |
| 4 |
9 |
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Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox, 717 Temple, 1948 August 23
1
item
(1 envelope)
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Empty envelope numbered A-532. |
| 4 |
10 |
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1138 Colton and 146 N Beaudry, 1956 August
16
items
(6 negatives, 7 envelopes, 3 note
cards)
|
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Group numbered Temple 2a-7b. Includes views of a kitchen with several small
children.
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| 4 |
11 |
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General views, land use and streets, and public and residential
buildings, 1956 August 14-1957 November
16
37
items
(18 negatives, 19
envelopes)
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General views from 110 Boylston; Glendale Blvd. and Colton; Flower and Court;
Huntley Dr. and W. Second; and from Huntley Dr. Streets and terrain at Temple St.
from the Harbor Freeway; W. First and Douglas; Toluca, and the Second St. Bridge
from Beverly Blvd. and Lucas. Land use at W. First and Fremont; from Court and
Douglas to Glendale Blvd.; and W. Second to Huntley Dr. near Beaudry. Public
buildings include the Echo Park library at Glendale Blvd. and Temple, and the
Board of Education Employment Office on N. Temple. Residential addresses include
1142 Mignonette; 1138 Colton; and 1145 Court. Also included are a recreation area
at 912 Diamond; shopping on the corner of Temple and Fremont; and apartment
interiors. Group numbered Temple 31-48.
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| 4 |
12 |
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Residential, 1956 August 14-1957 November
18
17
items
(8 negatives, 9
envelopes)
|
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Residential interiors and exteriors at 133 1/2 and 146 N. Beaudry; 1551 Court;
1350 Temple; 301 N. Figueroa; 811 Temple; and 1134 Angelina. Images show interior
housing conditions, the Raymond Inn hotel and annex, and housing exteriors. Land
use at Court and Toluca. Group numbered Temple 49-56.
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Interiors, 1957 |
| box |
folder |
| 4 |
13 |
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Slums (interiors), 1957 July 25
3
items
(1 envelope, 2 note
cards)
|
| 4 |
14 |
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Residential interiors, 1957 November 25
25
items
(12 negatives, 13
envelopes)
|
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|
Residential buildings on Angelina, Diamond, Fremont, and Colton streets. Mostly
unpeopled interiors, with two views of little children sitting along a driveway
or alley between two buildings. Group numbered Temple 106-111b.
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| 4 |
15 |
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Streets, public and residential buildings, 1957 November 14
23
items
(11 negatives, 12
envelopes)
|
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|
General views of streets include the Colton and Court streets area, and the
northeast corner of Diamond and N. Figueroa. Residential exteriors at 327 N.
Fremont; 911 (Rex Apartments), 912 and 916 Diamond; 212, 218, and 255 N. Fremont.
Public buildings include the County Health Building, N. Figueroa, and Municipal
Power and Light, 110 S. Boylston. Recreation includes the church playground behind
200 N. Beaudry. Group numbered Temple 1-11a.
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| 4 |
16 |
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Streets and alleys, land use and terrain, public and residential
buildings, 1957 November 15
39
items
(19 negatives, 20
envelopes)
|
|
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|
Streets include the intersections of Colton and Douglas and Boylston and Colton,
and Glendale Blvd. Alleys between Colton and First and Douglas and Edgeware; Court
and Colton; and Toluca and Douglas. Land use and terrain conditions at Court and
Douglas; between Edgeware and Toluca; between Colton and Court; Douglas; Council
and Glendale Blvd.; and 1139 W. Second. Commercial buildings at N. Beaudry and W.
First. Public buildings include the Los Angeles Deptartment of Water and Power,
1216 W. First, and the Cortez Street School at 1321 Cortez. Housing at 383, 387,
and 391 Douglas; 1020 Colton; and 1420 Temple. Public recreation area at Glendale
Blvd. and Temple. Group numbered Temple, 12a-30a.
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| 4 |
17 |
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Land use, shopping, residential, and recreation, 1957 November 21
49
items
(24 negatives, 25
envelopes)
|
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Includes Temple Beaudry, Court, Fremont, Colton, Rockwood, Figueroa, Patton, and
W. Second streets; and Glendale Blvd. Also includes Boylston market and a general
view of the Temple Street area. Group numbered Temple 57-80.
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| box |
folder |
| 5 |
1 |
|
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Residential and commercial buildings, shopping, land use, recreational,
streets and alleys, 1957 November 21
43
items
(21 negatives, 22
envelopes)
|
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Group numbered Temple 81-104. Missing negatives 102, 103, and 104. Images of
people include little kids sitting on a backyard fence; apartment residents; a
street cobbler; neighbors talking in the street.
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| box |
folder |
| 12 |
1 |
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Views and housing, undated
22
items
(21 slides, 1 slide
box)
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35mm color slides. Images include oil derricks in residential areas; exterior
housing conditioons; housing interiors with and without residents; debris and
trash; and street views.
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Ann Street, 1952-1956 |
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The 33-acre Ann Street Redevelopment Project, approved by Los Angeles Mayor Norris
C. Poulson in 1954, was the first redevelopment plan in the state of California, and
the CRA's first project. Located approximately one mile northeast of City Hall, the
33 acre area encompassing an eight block radius and comprising residential and other
types of buildings was cleared to create new industrial spaces and expand existing
businesses. Ann Street runs perpendicular to Spring Street and Main Street, from the
Cornfields (now Los Angeles State Historic Park) to William Mead Homes. The area is
bounded by North Spring, Mesnager, North Main, Llewellyn, and Rondout Streets.
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2 |
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Houses, 1952 June 18
53
items
(17 negatives, 17 contact prints, 1
note card, 18 envelopes)
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Primarily front and rear views of housing. |
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3 |
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Demolition ceremony, 1956 January 11
23
items
(22 negatives, 1
envelope)
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Demolition ceremony in 1956 including Mayor Norris C. Paulson and Councilman
Ernest E. Debs watching the first stages of demolition. Also includes views of
workers engaged in the various processes of demolition.
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Alameda area, 1952 |
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folder |
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4 |
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Houses and commercial buildings, 1952 June 12
64
items
(21 negatives, 21 contact prints, 22
envelopes)
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Includes the following streets in the Alameda area: Alameda; Commercial; Hewitt;
Garey; Vignes; Jackson; and DuCom[___]. Exterior views of housing and mixed use
areas.
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5 |
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Gas tank, 1952 November 18
6
items
(5 negatives, 1
envelope)
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Also includes the area around Second and Hill streets, and City Hall and a
rendering of the propsed redeveloment of the area.
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folder |
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4 |
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Correspondence and notes, 1951-1998,
undated
3
items
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Includes a letter from Percival G. Hart, executive director, CRA Los Angeles to
Howard Holtzendorff, executive director, HACLA, and a note on the verso of an
advertising card regarding negatives related to the CRA.
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Series I.C. Various subjects, undated
0.5 Linear
Feet
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Leonard Nadel photographs of various subjects, undated
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This subseries encompasses a variety of topics and subject matter related to public
housing. The photographs were most likely made by Nadel during the period when he
worked for HACLA and documented CRA projects, but specific projects have not been
identified.
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Materials are arranged thematically, by subject, or by the names of known
individuals.
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folder |
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6 |
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Monsignor O'Dwyer, undated
4
items
(1 negative, 2 envelopes, 1
print)
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Monsignor Thomas J. O'Dwyer, an ardent supporter of public housing, was the
Director of Health and Hospitals for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for 40 years. He
was also the chairman of the Citizens' Housing Council and member of the Governor's
Advisory Commission on Housing Problems.
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7 |
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Discrimination, undated
2
items
(1 negative, 1
envelope)
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Sign on fire escape landing rail of apartment building reads: Nice rooms and
apartments for white [sic] only.
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8 |
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First African Methodist Episcopal Church (1st AME)
congregation, undated
4
items
(3 negatives, 1
envelope)
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Three views of the congregation during a service. Note on envelope: Not used. |
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9 |
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Ed Davenport, undated (4
negatives, 4 contact prints, 1 envelope)
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Ed J. Davenport was the controversial council member for the Los Angeles City
Council District 12 seat, when the district included Bunker Hill and northwest
downtown, with its east and north boundaries at Glendale Boulevard and at Sunset
Boulevard. He was "an ardent foe of public housing and of Communism."
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10 |
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Richard Lewis, undated
5
items
(4 negatives, 1
envelope)
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Richard Lewis, a Black musician who was blind, performing at Sixteenth and Central
streets.
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11 |
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Blind female folk singer, undated
11
items
(7 negatives, 3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
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Two occupational portraits of a Black female folk singer who is blind. The writing
around her hatband reads: Israel must repent. Also included are views of a family in
their home, interiors showing living conditions, housing behind City Hall, and
burned out buildings.
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12 |
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People, powerlines, and views, undated
19
items
(19 negatives and two
envelopes)
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Unidentified subjects and locations. Images include women and men sitting outside;
boys playing in the street; a boy and a dog playing on a dirt hill with oil rigs on
it; a man sitting on a balcony; two little girls on the steps of an apartment house;
a street cobbler; people talking on the sidewalk; views of oil rigs and power lines;
housing exteriors; rear views of housing and trash; and street views taken from
above.
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13 |
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Storefronts and people on streets, undated
10
items
(8 negatives, 2
envelopes)
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Images include a corner street view with the Angels Flight Cafe; pedestrians
crossing the street near the Angel's Flight kiosk and passengers exiting the Angels
Flight railway; scenes outside the Penny Stores; and people talking on the street or
sitting outside. One envelope reads: Comm. Redev. Agency.
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18 |
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Watts, 1990,
undated
7
pamphlet(s)
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Seven copies of the pamphlet Watts '65 commemorating
the 25th anniversary of the Watts rebellion. One 4x5 negative of a Black boy
crying.
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