INVENTORY OF THE LEONARD NADEL PHOTOGRAPHS AND OTHER MATERIAL RELATING TO HOUSING AND URBAN REDEVELOPMENT IN LOS ANGELES,
1947-1998, BULK 1947-1957
Finding aid prepared by Beth Ann Guynn and Soohyun Yang
Descriptive Summary
Title: Leonard Nadel photographs and other material relating to housing and urban redevelopment in Los Angeles
Date (inclusive): 1947-1998 (bulk 1947-1957)
Number: 2002.M.42
Creator/Collector:
Nadel, Leonard, 1916-1990
Physical Description:
8.75 linear feet
(14 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Consisting primarily of photographic material by Leonard Nadel from 1947 to 1957, the collection records early efforts by
the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) to promote integrated public housing for the city's growing multi-ethnic
population, and also documents several areas of the city that the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) had targeted for commercial
revitalization. Nadel's black-and-white negatives, contact prints and two unpublished photographic books form the bulk of
the collection, supplemented by handwritten notes and related documents.
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Biographical/Historical Note
The American photojournalist Leonard Nadel was born in Harlem, New York in 1916 to Austrian-Hungarian parents and grew up
in the Bronx tenements. After graduating from City College of New York, Nadel trained at the Army Signal Corps Photographic
Center and served as a lab technician and combat photographer during World War II in Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippine
Islands. Upon leaving the army, he returned to New York and received a master's degree in education from Teachers College,
Columbia University. He taught briefly before moving to Los Angeles to study photography at the Art Center College of Design,
during which time he began photographing public housing sites.
In 1947 and 1948 Nadel documented the Pueblo del Rio housing development in South Central Los Angeles, originally built in
1940 for African-American defense industry workers. Nadel showed his material to Frank Wilkinson of the Housing Authority
of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), who suggested that he also document Aliso Village, another of the agency's housing projects.
Nadel assembled two books from his documentation of Pueblo del Rio and Aliso Village, but they were never published.
In 1949 Wilkinson hired Nadel as a photographer for HACLA to make a photographic record of living conditions in both the slums
and the new housing projects that were built in Los Angeles during and immediately after World War II. Several of these projects
were championed by or carried out under the auspices of the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). Nadel was employed by HACLA
until 1953, when Frank Wilkinson was blacklisted by the Committee on Un-American Activities and forced to resign from the
agency. Nadel left HACLA under protest.
From 1953 through the 1980s, Nadel worked as a freelance photographer, producing documentary work for various agencies and
magazines such as
National Geographic,
Look,
Forbes,
Life, and
Paris Match. For over two decades he was the primary west coast photographer for
Business Week. Of particular note is his 1956 documentation the Bracero program for the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic.
Nadel married Brazilian-born Evelyn De Wolfe, a staff writer for the
Los Angeles Times in 1961. Over the next eighteen years they collaborated on numerous freelance projects for domestic and international publications,
ranging from documenting the life of a Japanese geisha to living with a stone age tribe in New Guinea. Nadel also continued
to document the city of Los Angeles, particularly focusing on street mural art during the 1960s and 1970s. Leonard Nadel died
in 1990.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers, except the videocassette tape which is unavailable until reformatted.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Leonard Nadel photographs and other material relating to housing and urban redevelopment in Los Angeles, 1947-1998, The Getty
Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2002.M.42.
Acquisition information
Acquired in 2002.
Processing Information note
The collection was processed by Soohyun Yang in the spring of 2011, and by Beth Ann Guynn and Linda Kleiger in the fall and
winter of 2011. The collection was digitized from 2011 to 2013 with support from the National Historical Publications and
Records Commission (NHPRC) and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2002m42.
Digital Collection
The collection was digitized from 2011 to 2013 with support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
(NHPRC) and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2002m42.
Related Archival Materials
The collections of the Los Angeles Public Library and the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research each
contain photographic images made by Leonard Nadel during the time he worked for The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
(HACLA). The
Photo Collection of the Los Angeles Public Library contains approximately 290 copy negatives and corresponding black-and-white copy prints
made from original materials held by HACLA.
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Photograph Collection, held at the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, contains 225 black-and-white photographs produced
by HACLA, forty-two of which were taken by Nadel. The National Museum of American History holds a collection of Nadel's Bracero
photographs.
Scope and Content of Collection
Consisting primarily of photographic material by Leonard Nadel from 1947 to 1957, the collection records early efforts by
the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) to promote integrated public housing for the city's growing multi-ethnic
population, and also documents several areas of the city that the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) targeted for commercial
revitalization. Nadel's black-and-white negatives and contact prints form the bulk of the collection, supplemented by handwritten
notes and related documents. Also included are two unpublished books produced by Nadel.
Series I contains most of Nadel's documentation of HACLA and CRA projects in the 1940s and 1950s. His work as a documentary
photographer for HACLA records living conditions in the slum areas of Los Angeles and, to some extent, the new housing projects
that replaced them, including Avalon Gardens, Rose Hill Courts, Ramona Gardens, and the unrealized Elysian Park Heights project.
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. Also included are photographs of the planning meetings of city officials and architects
(including Richard Neutra, Robert Alexander, and Lloyd Wright).
Nadel also documented several areas of the city that the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) targeted for commercial revitalization
in the 1940s and 1950s. He made meticulous photographic surveys, sometimes block by block, of the slums and historic areas
targeted for demolition and redevelopment, including Bunker Hill, the Temple Street area, Ann Street, and the Alameda Street
area. Documentation of the Bunker Hill Renewal Project is particularly extensive.
Series II contains Nadel's unpublished books and related material on Pueblo del Rio and Aliso Village, the two HACLA projects
that Nadel documented most extensively. Through photographs and text, two large leather-bound volumes tell in detail the stories
of the two housing projects, focusing not just on the architecture and layout of the complexes, but also recording the family
lives and project-supported social networks of the tenants.
The collection was digitized from 2011 to 2013 with support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
(NHPRC) and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2002m42.
Arrangement
Arranged in two series:
Series I. Projects related to housing and urban redevelopment, 1947-1998, undated;
Series II. Unpublished books, 1947-1994, undated.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970
Wilkinson, Frank, 1914-2006
Wright, Lloyd, 1890-1978
Subjects - Corporate Bodies
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, California.
Subjects - Topics
Public housing--California--Los Angeles--20th century
Urban renewal--California--Los Angeles--20th century
Subjects - Places
Aliso Village (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Description and travel
Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Description and travel
Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Description and travel
Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.)---Description and travel
Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Description and travel
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Description and travel
Los Angeles Region (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century
Ramona Gardens (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Description and travel
Slums--California--Los Angeles
Slums--New York (State)--New York
Genres and Forms of Material
Aerial photographs--California--Los Angeles--20th century
Black-and-white negatives--California--Los Angeles--20th century
Gelatin silver prints--California--Los Angeles--20th century
Panoramas--California--Los Angeles--20th century
Photographs, Original
Videocassettes--California--Los Angeles--20th century
Contributors
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, California.
Wilkinson, Frank, 1914-2006
Container List
Series I.
Projects related to housing and urban redevelopment,
1947-1998, undated
Physical Description:
3.0 linear feet
(6 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
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 Redevelopmnent Agency
(CRA) for demolition and revitalization. Additionally, there are photographs of the planning meetings of city officials and
architects, tours, hearings, and conferences. Also present is documentation of slums in New York, which Nadel took in the
early 1950s when he was sent to that city to prepare a comparative documentary study of the two cities. See Series II for
Nadel's extensive documentation of the Pueblo del Rio and Aliso Village projects.
Arrangement note
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.
Series I.A.
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles,
1948-1997, undated
Leonard Nadel photographs for the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, 1948-1997 (digital version)
Physical Description:
1.5 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
The bulk of the subseries consists of negatives, contact prints, annotated envelopes and notes produced by Nadel as a documentary
photographer for the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (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 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 slums, particularly near downtown Los Angeles.
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, 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.
Arrangement note
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. The notes on these envelopes and the accompanying note cards do not necessarily reflect the subject matter of the
negatives and prints contained in them.
Box 13, Folder 1
The 8th, 9th, and 10th consolidated annual report of the Housing Authority of Los Angeles,
1948
Physical Description:
1.0 reports
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 14, Folder 1
And Ten Thousand More,
1949
Physical Description:
1.0 item
Scope and Content Note
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.
Slums,
1948-1952, undated
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 1, Folder 1
Mixed use areas (industrial and housing),
1948 August
Physical Description:
31.0 items
(30 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Housing in downtown Los Angeles, housing in construction and industrial areas, and views of Chávez Ravine.
Box 1, Folder 2
Tent living on Rose Hill,
1948 October 14
Physical Description:
13.0 items
(11 negatives, 1 envelope, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
Perea family (2701 Amethyst St.) and Allman family (4000 Amethyst St.).
Box 1, Folder 3
219 N. Olive St.,
1948 October 21
Physical Description:
6.0 items
(5 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Exterior, interior, bedroom, kitchen, and inhabitants.
Box 1, Folder 4
Burned out housing,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(4 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes one interior scene with a woman and child.
Box 1, Folder 5
Chaney family, Hewitt St.,
1950 April 21
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 negative, 1 envelope)
Box 1, Folder 6
Fickett Hollow area of Boyle Heights,
1950 July 22
Physical Description:
7.0 items
(3 negatives, 3 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Also includes a view of tenements behind City Hall.
Box 1, Folder 7
Demolition,
1952 June 2
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 1, Folder 8
Children playing in Aliso alley,
1952 July 15
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(1 print, 1 negative, 1 envelope)
Box 1, Folder 9
Fighting tenement fire,
1952 September 12
Physical Description:
6.0 items
(3 negatives, 2 prints, 1 envelope)
Box 1, Folder 10
205 N. Flower,
1952 June 9
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 1, Folder 11
Ord St. near City Hall,
1952 June 12
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 1, Folder 12
Mission Rd.,
1952 July 23
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 1, Folder 13
319 N. Mission Rd.,
1952 August 22
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Rehabilitating housing.
Box 1, Folder 14
Seventh and Mateo streets,
1952 August 22
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 1, Folder 15
Seventh and Mateo and W. Third and San Pedro streets,
1952 July 17
Physical Description:
10.0 items
(5 negatives, 2 contact prints, 3 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Includes views of Chávez Ravine.
Box 1, Folder 16
730 W. Third St.,
1952 July 17
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 2 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Rear of tenement with outhouses.
Box 1, Folder 17
Bauchet St.,
1952 August 22
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Backyard with boy standing under laundry lines.
Box 1, Folder 18
Shacks and outhouse,
undated
Physical Description:
8.0 items
(4 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1 envelope, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
Prints are of interiors with inhabitants.
Box 1, Folder 19
Slum house in the Bowery, Manhattan,
undated
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(4 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes views of Jack's Place liquor store and Morning Star Mission storefronts.
Box 1, Folder 20
Unidentified slums,
undated
Physical Description:
20.0 items
(19 negatives, 1 envelope)
Public housing projects,
1949, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes photographs of Ramona Gardens, Avalon Gardens, and Basilone Homes for Veterans.
Box 1, Folder 21
Photo exhibition at Ramona Gardens,
1949 March 7
Physical Description:
7.0 items
(6 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 1, Folder 22
Rose Hill Courts, Avalon Gardens,
undated
Physical Description:
13.0 items
(6 negatives, 5 contact prints, 1 envelope, 1 note card)
Box 1, Folder 23
Avalon Gardens,
undated
Physical Description:
10.0 items
(9 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Carnival; Georgia Ferris portrait [?]
Veterans housing,
1949, undated
Box 1, Folder 24
Inter-council conference,
undated
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Materials displayed on walls relate to veterans housing.
Box 1, Folder 25
Basilone homes,
1949 January 12
Physical Description:
18.0 items
(9 negatives, 8 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Homes for veterans. People playing in the snow. Children making snowman.
Civic Center area,
1950-1951, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes views of downtown Los Angeles's civic buildings and the slums in their immediate vicinity.
Box 1, Folder 26
View of City Hall and Federal Building,
1950 May 1
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 1, Folder 27
Civic Center views,
1951 January 10
Physical Description:
21.0 items
(10 negatives, 10 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Views of Los Angeles taken from a tower, views of City Hall, and views of Los Angeles River.
Box 1, Folder 28
First St. area and demolition,
1951 July 13
Physical Description:
32.0 items
(16 negatives, 14 contact prints, 2 envelopes)
Box 1, Folder 29
Tenements near City Hall,
undated
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(2 negatives, 1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes a view of the Los Angeles River.
Box 1, Folder 30
Channel Heights,
1950 June 16
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
View of housing with children playing on lawn.
Box 1, Folder 31
Rancho San Pedro grading,
1952 July 24
Physical Description:
11.0 items
(5 negatives, 5 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
S. Mesa to Centre and W. First to Second St. area.
Elysian Park Heights project,
Bulk, 1950-1952
1950-1997, undated
Scope and Content Note
Elysian Park Heights was HACLA's proposed public housing project meant to replace the old, predominently Latino Chávez Ravine
neigborhoods of La Loma, Palo Verde, and Bishop, and the surrounding hillside grazing lands. Lying in close proximity to downtown
Los Angeles, Chávez Ravine was viewed as underutilized, and its established, but poor communities were labeled as "blighted."
When the tide turned against public housing with the election of Norris Poulson as mayor of Los Angeles in 1953, the Elysian
Park Heights project was halted, even though most of the neighborhoods had been demolished in preparation for the new housing.
The land, which had been purchased for the housing project under eminent domain with funds allocated by the Federal Housing
Authority, was repurchased by the city with the stipulation that it be used for a "public purpose" which was eventually translated
into a baseball stadium.
Box 1, Folder 32
Views of the ravine and views of the city from the ravine,
1950 April-1950 June
Physical Description:
54.0 items
(27 negatives, 22 contact prints, 4 envelopes, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
Bishop Rd. and Effie St., Chávez Ravine Rd. and Lilac Terrace, Chávez Ravine Rd. Shot on 23 April, 1 May, and 6 June. For
joined panorama (12-123 a-c) see Box 13, Folder 1.
Box 13, Folder 3
Panoramas,
1950-1997, undated
Physical Description:
13.0 items
(11 photographic prints, 2 items)
Scope and Content Note
Two two-part panoramic photographs, and a third, single view, and eight small joined panoramas (comprised of two, three, or
five photographs). Also includes notes by Nadel on Chávez Ravine and print-outs of
Los Angeles Times articles.
Box 1, Folder 33
Panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles from Elysian Park,
circa 1950
Physical Description:
10.0 items
(4 negatives, 4 contact prints, 1 envelope, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
Looking towards City Hall.
Box 2, Folder 1
View of City Hall through palm trees in Chávez Ravine,
circa 1950
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 2, Folder 2
Children,
1950 April 21
Physical Description:
27.0 items
(12 negatives, 12 contact prints, 1 envelope, 2 note cards)
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 2, Folder 3
Street scenes,
1950 April 23
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Children on dirt roads.
Box 2, Folder 4
Sheep grazing,
1950 April 29 and 1950 May 1
Physical Description:
20.0 items
(14 negatives, 3 contact prints, 1 envelope, 2 note cards)
Scope and Content Note
Views of a shepherd and his sheep, and two women standing in front of a quonset hut house. Includes negatives for the seven
joined panoramas of the ravine in Box 13, Folder 1.
Box 2, Folder 5
Yolo Dr. and Pine St.,
circa 1950
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Children playing in streets, two girls sitting on the rear bumper of a car.
Box 2, Folder 6
Robert Alexander with two children,
1950 August 31
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Architects' conference on Elysian Park,
1950
Box 2, Folder 7
Architects' conference,
1950 October 2
Physical Description:
46.0 items
(11 negatives, 33 prints, 1 envelope, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
Architects depicted include Richard Neutra, Robert Alexander, Patterson, and Cimino.
Box 2, Folder 8
Conference participants,
circa 1950
Physical Description:
13.0 items
(12 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes Charles Waldman of HACLA: Reynald Jackson; Mr. Mayer, Managment Director; Mr. Sweeting, Chief Project Planner; and
Mr. Cimino, Development Division.
Box 2, Folder 9
Architects,
circa 1950
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(4 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes Richard Neutra, Robert Alexander, and Cimino.
Box 2, Folder 10
Drafting department and development division,
1950 October 2
Physical Description:
25.0 items
(12 negatives, 12 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Portraits of Pete Perez, Lou Clerging [?], Jack Thass [?], and Sam Beckett.
Box 2, Folder 11
Personnel,
circa 1950
Physical Description:
9.0 items
(8 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Portraits of Sid Grun [?], Clinton Arnold, Vicki Alonzo, Gracie, Botsy, Manny, and Ignacio Lopez.
Box 2, Folder 12
Portraits,
circa 1950
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes Rosen, F.W. [Frank Wilkinson], Nadel, Cimino, and a woman.
Box 2, Folder 13
Panorama of Lookout Mt. area,
1951 December 5
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 2, Folder 14
Views and meetings,
1952, undated
Physical Description:
32.0 items
( 21 negatives, 10 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Views of the ravine, images from a conference or hearing including speakers, presenters, and portraits of participants, including
a portrait of Tash Koshida (dated 21 May 1952). Also includes an image of a tenement near City Hall.
Box 2, Folder 15
Demolition of housing,
1952 June 12 and 1952 July 8
Physical Description:
7.0 items
(3 negatives, 3 contact prints,1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Curtis St. near Paducah and La Loma streets.
Box 2, Folder 16
Demolition, fires, and house moving,
1952 June 24
Physical Description:
15.0 items
(7 negatives, 7 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 2, Folder 17
Broad views of demolition,
1952 July 8
Physical Description:
11.0 items
(4 negatives, 4 contact prints, 3 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Chávez Ravine, view from Curtis St.
Box 2, Folder 18
Demolition in the ravine,
circa 1952
Physical Description:
14.0 items
(13 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 2, Folder 19
Mailboxes,
1952 July 8
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Mabrina [?] and Effie streets.
Box 2, Folder 20
Elysian Park Heights trial,
1952 September 3
Physical Description:
17.0 items
(6 negatives, 5 contact prints, 5 envelopes, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
Carleton Williams (
Los Angeles Times), Magnus [?] White (
Los Angeles Examiner), Welton Weber (Assistant City District Attorney), and Clara McDonald.
Box 2, Folder 21
Mexican dance group at Palo Verde School,
undated
Physical Description:
34.0 items
(10 negatives, 22 contact prints, 1 envelope, 1 note card)
Box 2, Folder 22
Portrait of an older male resident of Chávez Ravine,
undated
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Frank Wilkinson,
1950-1997, undated
Scope and Content Note
Frank Wilkinson, the assistant director of HACLA, was accused by in 1952 by real estate interests of being a Communist for
his championship of the Elysian Park Heights housing project proposed for Chávez Ravine. Refusing to state his political affiliations
when under oath during hearings related to the matter, Wilkinson 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.
Box 13, Folder 2
Correspondence and articles,
1950-1997
Physical Description:
10.0 items
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 2, Folder 23
Wilkinson housing tour,
undated
Physical Description:
18.0 items
(10 negatives, 7 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Annotations on envelope: NYC housing tour; Wilkinson housing tour.
Hearings, publicity,
1951-1953
Box 2, Folder 24
Citizens Against Socialist Housing (CASH) and Mayor's hearings,
circa 1951-1953
Physical Description:
27.0 items
(13 negatives, 13 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
CASH was led by Frederick Dockweiler.
Box 2, Folder 25
Housing Authority campaign (television),
1952 June 2
Physical Description:
7.0 items
(3 negatives, 3 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 2, Folder 26
Protesters picketing public housing,
1952 June 28
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Protesters carrying signs opposing public housing and Mayor Bowron's policies. Margaret Hess is identified as one of the protesters.
Series I.B.
Community Redevelopment Agency,
1948-1998, undated
Leonard Nadel photographs of Community Redevelopment Agency projects, 1948-1998 (digital version)
Physical Description:
1.0 linear foot
Scope and Content Note
This subseries contains Nadel's photographic documentation of several areas of Los Angeles that the Community Redevelopment
Agency (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. He 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.
Arrangement note
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. The notes on these envelopes and the accompanying note cards do not necessarily
reflect the subject matter of the negatives and prints contained in them.
Urban Redevelopment Commission,
1949-1955
Box 2, Folder 27
Tour,
1949 April 26,
Physical Description:
59.0 items
(28 negatives, 29 contact prints, 2 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Participants included Brock, Sasesmon [?], Rhea, Holtzendorf. Also a view of the Cole Hotel.
Box 2, Folder 28
Santa Fe area,
1950 December 28
Physical Description:
50.0 items
(23 negatives, 23 contact prints, 3 note cards, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Houses, backyards, and rooftop views of Damon, Mateo, E. Eighth, Santa Fe, Enterprise, and Hunter streets.
Box 3, Folder 1
Olympic area,
1950 December 29
Physical Description:
46.0 items
(21 negatives, 21 contact prints, 3 note cards, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Houses and alleyways in Wilston, Elwood, Lawrence, and Channing streets.
Box 3, Folder 2
Parking lots and the Fourth St. ramp,
1955 August 9
Physical Description:
24.0 items
(11 negatives, 12 envelopes, 1 note card)
Bunker Hill Renewal Project,
1951-1956
Scope and Content Note
The 133-acre Bunker Hill Urban Renewal Project, conceived as a project to raze the once-stately Victorian neighborhood that
had drastically declined due to the suburbanization made possible by the trolley lines and furthered by the automobile and
the development of Los Angeles's freeway system, and to revitalize it as a business district, was begun by the CRA in 1955.
It is scheduled for completion in 2015, making it the longest redevelopment project in Los Angeles. The area is bounded by
First St. on the north, Hill St. on the east, Fifth St. on the south and the Harbor Freeway on the west. The first stage of
the project, documented by Nadel, was massive slum clearance and the flattening of the hilltop.
Notecards and annotations on envelopes contain information on housing conditions, rents, 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.
Box 3, Folder 3
Scale model of Bunker Hill,
1951 January 17
Physical Description:
12.0 items
(3 negatives, 6 contact prints, 2 note cards, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Prints and negatives do not match.
Box 3, Folder 4
First to Fifth streets, Flower to Hill streets,
1951 March 1
Physical Description:
71.0 items
(24 negatives, 23 contact prints, 22 envelopes, 2 note cards)
Scope and Content Note
For CRA study.
Box 3, Folder 5
First and Olive to Second and Hill streets area,
1952 April 14
Physical Description:
21.0 items
(10 negatives, 10 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 3, Folder 6
Bunker Hill, First, Second, Olive, and Hill streets area,
1952 June 5
Physical Description:
7.0 items
(3 negatives, 3 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 3, Folder 7
Aerials,
1955 November 15
Physical Description:
19.0 items
(18 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes six negatives of an older couple on a porch and one negative of an older man leaning on a porch rail.
Box 3, Folder 8
Fremont Ave., Figueroa St.,
1955 September 16
Physical Description:
41.0 items
(19 negatives, 20 envelopes, 2 note cards)
Scope and Content Note
Also includes First, S. Olive, and Hill streets. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 1-17.
Box 3, Folder 9
W. Second and Hope streets, 100 S. Olive St.,
1955 September 21
Physical Description:
6.0 items
(2 negatives, 1 note card, 3 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 22-23.
Box 3, Folder 10
122 S. Olive St.,
1955 September 20
Physical Description:
10.0 items
(4 negatives, 5 envelopes, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 18-21.
Box 3, Folder 11
W. Second St. area,
1955 September 21-1955 September 22
Physical Description:
55.0 items
(26 negatives, 27 envelopes, 2 note cards)
Scope and Content Note
Also includes views of First, Third, Olive, Figueroa, Flower, and other streets. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 24-44.
Box 3, Folder 12
134 Fremont Ave.,
1955 September 21-1955 September 22
Physical Description:
35.0 items
(17 negatives, 18 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 3, Folder 13
Clay St.,
1955 September 27
Physical Description:
16.0 items
(7 negatives, 1 note card, 8 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Also includes Fourth, Olive, Hill, Second, and Third streets. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 54-60.
Box 3, Folder 14
Figueroa St.,
1955 September 29
Physical Description:
13.0 items
(6 negatives, 7 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Includes 334 S. Figueroa, 350 S. Figueroa, W. Third and S. Figueroa, and 448 S. Bunker Hill. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2,
61-66.
Box 3, Folder 15
209 S. Olive St.,
1955 September 29
Physical Description:
25.0 items
(11 negatives, 12 envelopes, 2 note cards)
Scope and Content Note
Also includes 345 S. Clay St. and 133 S. Hope St. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 67-77.
Box 3, Folder 16
Slums,
1955 September 30
Physical Description:
22.0 items
(10 negatives, 11 envelopes, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
Addresses and streets include 308 S. Flower, 217 S. Grand, 334 S. Figueroa, 135 S. Grand, 308 S. Flower, 820 W. First, 355
S. Bunker Hill, and Clay St. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 78-87a.
Box 3, Folder 17
Substandard housing,
1955 October 5
Physical Description:
24.0 items
(11 negatives, 12 envelopes, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 3, Folder 18
Substandard and poor housing,
1955 October 6
Physical Description:
17.0 items
(7 negatives, 8 envelopes, 2 note cards)
Scope and Content Note
Addresses include 433 S. Hope, 119 S. Grand, 724 W. 1st, 314 S. Olive, and 237 S. Bunker Hill. Group numbered Bunker Hill
2, 99-105.
Box 3, Folder 19
Slums, stores, alleys, and street conditions,
1955 October 8-1955 October 10
Physical Description:
36.0 items
(16 negatives, 17 envelopes, 2 note cards, 1 note)
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 4, Folder 1
Playgrounds, substandard, poor, and acceptable housing, traffic, and general views,
1955 October 18
Physical Description:
45.0 items
(21 negatives, 2 note cards, 22 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
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. Views of Sack Alley, traffic at Fourth and Hillside, S. Flower, W. First, and Third
streets. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 122-139.
Box 4, Folder 2
General views, traffic, playgrounds,
1955 October 19
Physical Description:
29.0 items
(14 negatives, 15 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 4, Folder 3
Traffic, land use, housing and street conditions, shopping, and recreation,
1955 October 26
Physical Description:
52.0 items
(25 negatives, 26 envelopes, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
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, W. Second and S. Hill looking north. Also included are street
conditions at W. Third St. and S. Hope, the alleyway at Olive Ct., and views of shopping areas, and playgrounds. Group numbered
Bunker Hill 2, 149-174.
Box 4, Folder 4
Traffic and general views,
1955 October 26
Physical Description:
14.0 items
(6 negatives, 7 envelopes, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
Views of traffic at W. First and S. Olive, and S. Olive, Fourth, and 5th 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.
Box 4, Folder 5
Housing and street conditions,
1955 October 31
Physical Description:
30.0 items
(13 negatives, 14 envelopes, 3 note cards)
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 4, Folder 6
Shopping,
1955 November 29
Physical Description:
26.0 items
(12 negatives, 13 envelopes, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
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 St. tunnel. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 193-204.
Box 4, Folder 7
People,
1955 November 9
Physical Description:
15.0 items
(7 negatives, 8 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
People on 3rd St., Grand St., W. 4th St., and S. Clay St. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 205-211.
Box 4, Folder 8
County garage,
1956 January 12
Physical Description:
6.0 items
(1 negative, 1 envelope, 4 note cards)
Scope and Content Note
Located at W. Second and S. Hill streets. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 217a.
Temple area,
1948-1957, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes interior and exterior residential views of the Temple Street area which was a fashionable residential neighborhood
in the late-nineteenth century.
Box 4, Folder 9
Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox, 717 Temple,
1948 August 23
Physical Description:
1.0 item
(1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Empty envelope numbered A-532.
Box 4, Folder 10
1138 Colton and 146 N Beaudry,
1956 August
Physical Description:
16.0 items
(6 negatives, 7 envelopes, 3 note cards)
Scope and Content Note
Group numbered Temple 2a-7b.
Box 4, Folder 11
General views, land use and streets, and public and residential buildings,
1956 August 14-1957 November 16
Physical Description:
37.0 items
(18 negatives, 19 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
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, and shopping on the corner of Temple and Fremont. Group numbered Temple 31-48.
Box 4, Folder 12
Residential,
1956 August 14-1957 November 18
Physical Description:
17.0 items
(8 negatives, 9 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Residential interiors and exteriors at 133 1/2 and 146 N. Beaudry, 1551 Court, 1350 Temple, 301 N. Figueroa, 811 Temple, and
1134 Angelina. Land use at Court and Toluca. Group numbered Temple 49-56.
Box 4, Folder 13
Slums (interiors),
1957 July 25
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(1 envelope, 2 note cards)
Box 4, Folder 14
Residential interiors,
1957 November 25
Physical Description:
25.0 items
(12 negatives, 13 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Interior images of residential buildings on Angelina, Diamond, Fremont, and Colton streets. Group numbered Temple 106-111b.
Box 4, Folder 15
Streets, public and residential buildings,
1957 November 14
Physical Description:
23.0 items
(11 negatives, 12 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 4, Folder 16
Streets and alleys, land use and terrain, public and residential buildings,
1957 November 15
Physical Description:
39.0 items
(19 negatives, 20 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Streets include the intersection of Colton and Douglas, 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.
Box 4, Folder 17
Land use, shopping, residential, and recreation,
1957 November 21
Physical Description:
49.0 items
(24 negatives, 25 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
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.
Box 5, Folder 1
Residential and commercial buildings, shopping, land use, recreational, streets and alleys,
1957 November 21
Physical Description:
43.0 items
(21 negatives, 22 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Group numbered Temple 81-104. Missing negatives 102, 103, and 104.
Box 12, Folder 1
Views and housing,
undated
Physical Description:
22.0 items
(21 slides, 1 slide box)
Scope and Content Note
35mm color slides.
Ann Street,
1952-1956
Scope and Content Note
The Ann Street Redevelopment Project, approved by Los Angeles Mayor Norris C. Poulson in 1954, was the first redevelopment
plan in the state of California.
Box 5, Folder 2
Houses,
1952 June 18
Physical Description:
53.0 items
(17 negatives, 17 contact prints, 1 note card, 18 envelopes)
Box 5, Folder 3
Demolition ceremony,
1956 January 11
Physical Description:
23.0 items
(22 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Demolition ceremony in 1956 including Mayor Norris C. Paulson and Councilman Ernest E. Debs, to make way for redevelopment.
Box 5, Folder 4
Houses and commercial buildings,
1952 June 12
Physical Description:
64.0 items
(21 negatives, 21 contact prints, 22 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Includes the following streets in the Alameda area: Alameda, Commercial, Hewitt, Garey, Vignes, Jackson, and DuCom[___].
Box 5, Folder 5
Gas tank,
1952 November 18
Physical Description:
6.0 items
(5 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Also includes the area around Second and Hill streets, and City Hall.
Box 13, Folder 4
Correspondence and notes,
1951-1998, undated
Physical Description:
3.0 items
Scope and Content Note
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.
Series I.C.
Various subjects,
undated
Leonard Nadel photographs of various subjects, undated (digital version)
Physical Description:
0.5 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
This subseries encompasses a variety of topics and subject matter that relate to public housing. The photographs were most
likely made by Nadel during the period when he worked for HACLA and documented CRA projects, but for which a specific project
has not been identified.
Arrangement note
Materials are arranged thematically, by subject, or by the names of known individuals.
Box 5, Folder 6
Monsignor O'Dwyer,
undated
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(1 negative, 2 envelopes, 1 print)
Scope and Content Note
Monsignor O'Dwyer was an ardent supporter of public housing.
Box 5, Folder 7
Discrimination,
undated
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 negative, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Sign on balcony rail of apartment building reads: Nice rooms and apartments for white [sic] only.
Box 5, Folder 8
First African Methodist Episcopal Church (1st AME) congregation,
undated
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Not used [in book?].
Box 5, Folder 9
Ed Davenport,
undated
Physical Description:
9.0
(4 negatives, 4 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 5, Folder 10
Richard Lewis,
undated
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(4 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Blind folk singer Richard Lewis performing at Sixteenth and Central streets.
Box 5, Folder 11
Blind female folk singer,
undated
Physical Description:
11.0 items
(7 negatives, 3 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Musician's hatband reads: Israel must repent. Also includes a family in their home and other tenement interiors, tenements
behind City Hall, and burned out buildings.
Box 5, Folder 12
People, powerlines, and views,
undated
Physical Description:
19.0 items
(19 negatives)
Scope and Content Note
Unidentified subjects and areas.
Box 5, Folder 13
Storefronts and people on streets,
undated
Physical Description:
10.0 items
(8 negatives, 2 envelopes)
Box 13, Folder 18
Watts,
1990, undated
Physical Description:
7.0 pamphlet(s)
Scope and Content Note
Seven copies of the pamphlet Watts '65 commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Watts rebellion. One 4x5 negative of an African
American boy crying.
Series II.
Unpublished books,
Bulk, 1947-1949
1947-1994, undated
Physical Description:
5.25 linear ft.
(7 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
The series contains Nadel's unpublished books and related material on the two HACLA projects that he documented most extensively,
Pueblo del Rio and Aliso Village. Nadel began documenting Pueblo del Rio while a student at the Art Center College of Design.
In the late 1940s he showed some of the photographs to Frank Wilkinson, who encouraged him to continue his documentation,
suggesting that he also photograph Aliso Village. Shortly thereafter Wilkinson hired Nadel as a photographer for HACLA. The
books Nadel compiled from his material are titled, "Pueblo del Rio: the study of a planned community" and "Aliso Village,
USA."
Arrangement note
Arranged in two subseries: Series II.A. Pueblo del Rio, 1947-1948; Series II.B. Aliso Village, 1948-1994.
Series II.A.
Pueblo del Rio,
1947-1948
Leonard Nadel photographs of Pueblo del Rio, 1947-1948 (digital version)
Physical Description:
2.0 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of Nadel's unpublished book, "Pueblo del Rio: The Study of a Planned Community," and additional photographic
material related to the project. Originally built in 1940 for African-American defense industry workers, Pueblo del Rio is
a housing development located at 52nd Street and Long Beach Avenue in South Central Los Angeles. The mid-century modernist
project was designed by the Southeast Housing Architects, which included Richard Neutra, Gordon Kaufman, Adrian Wilson, and
the firm of Wurdeman & Becket. The chief architect on the project was Paul R. Williams, Los Angeles's first successful African-American
architect, known as the "architect to the stars" for the many private residences he designed for the Hollywood elite. Nadel
began documenting Pueblo del Rio while a student at the Art Center College of Design. In the late 1940s he showed some of
the photographs to Frank Wilkinson, who encouraged him to continue his documentation, and later hired him as a photographer
for HACLA.
Arrangement note
Materials are arranged thematically, and include views of the project, and of community life such as activities and organizations
within the project, schools, and named residents in a variety of activities and settings. The last part of the subseries consists
of the book matter, including selected images, text, and the maquette.
Box 5, Folder 14
Aerial view,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 negative, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Note reads: Not used [in book?].
Box 5, Folder 15
Maps and views,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
19.0 items
(18 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
"Map showing public housing developments under the managment of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angles," "Unit and
housing numbering map," views of the project, people, and daily life (areas for hanging laundry, baseball, mail delivery),
and of a sign bearing the legend: 1200 children living here please drive carefully.
Box 5, Folder 16
Unit and house numbering map,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 5, Folder 17
View from across the railroad tracks,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
7.0 items
(5 negatives, 1 envelope, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
Includes images of a burned down house.
Box 5, Folder 18
Exterior views,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
6.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 envelopes, 2 note cards)
Scope and Content Note
Includes one image of a man sitting at a desk.
Box 5, Folder 19
Exterior views and stairway,
1947 October 31
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 envelope, 1 note card)
Various subjects,
circa 1948
Box 5, Folder 20
Staff and office,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
8.0 items
(7 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Note reads: Not used [in book?].
Box 5, Folder 21
Maintenance staff,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(4 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Maintenance staff standing in front of Pueblo del Rio administration building. Note reads: Not used [in book?].
Box 5, Folder 22
1200 children sign,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Images of signs bearing the legend: 1200 children living here. Please drive carefully. Note reads: Not used [in book?].
Box 5, Folder 23
Clinic,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
10.0 items
(9 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
People at clinic. Note reads: Not used [in book?].
Box 5, Folder 24
Congregation outside church,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes a little girl dressed in her "Sunday best."
Box 5, Folder 25
Interiors,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
10.0 items
(7 negatives, 1 envelope, 2 note cards)
Scope and Content Note
Some images include inhabitants engaged in various activities.
Box 5, Folder 26
Kitchen, dining room, bedroom, and bathroom,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
7.0 items
(3 negatives, 4 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Kitchen, dining room, bedroom, and bathroom.
Box 5, Folder 27
Resident Council meeting,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 5, Folder 28
Ballet, ping pong, Murray's girl,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 5, Folder 29
Jamis,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 negative, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Portrait of a young girl with her face leaning on her hand.
Box 5, Folder 30
Talent show,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
10.0 items
(9 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Performers and audience.
Box 5, Folder 31
Children,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
13.0 items
(11 negatives, 1 envelope, 2 note cards)
Scope and Content Note
Children in classroom and playing or grouped outside. Includes an exterior view of the Pueblo del Rio administration building,
and a portrait of Mrs. Terry [?].
Box 6, Folder 1
Children at nursery,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
12.0 items
(11 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 6, Folder 2
Children, exterior of school [?],
circa 1948
Physical Description:
7.0 items
(6 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 6, Folder 3
Mrs. Terry,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
18.0 items
(17 negatives, 1 envelope)
Samuel family,
circa 1948
Box 6, Folder 4
Bessie Samuel and family in kitchen,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 negative, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Box 6, Folder 5
Family activities,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
9.0 items
(8 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes images of groups of adults and children, and baseball game. Note reads: Not used [in book?].
Box 6, Folder 6
Group 1,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
51.0 items
(25 negatives, 26 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Group labeled "1" on envelope.
Box 6, Folder 7
Group 2,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
63.0 items
(31 negatives, 32 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Group labeled "2" on envelope.
Box 6, Folder 8
Group 3,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
25.0 items
(12 negatives, 13 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Group labeled "3" on envelope.
Box 6, Folder 9
Text,
circa 1948
Physical Description:
42.0 items
(41 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Pages of texts, captions, and page numbers for the book.
Box 11, Folder 1
"Pueblo del Rio: The Study of a Planned Community",
circa 1948
Physical Description:
1.0 volume
Scope and Content Note
Bound volume of 100 pages containing a photographic essay on the Pueblo del Rio housing project, illustrated with 76 gelatin
silver photographs.
Series II.B.
Aliso Village,
Bulk, 1948-1949
1948-1994, undated
Leonard Nadel photographs of Aliso Village, 1948-1994, bulk 1948-1949 (digital version)
Physical Description:
3.25 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of Nadel's unpublished book, "Aliso Village, USA," and additional material related to the project.
Designed in 1942 by the Housing Group Architects, lead by Ralph Flewelling and including Lloyd Wright, the garden city-style
Aliso Village was one of the first racially integrated public housing projects in the United States. It was built in the Boyle
Heights area known as "The Flats," which in the 1930s was one of the most impoverished areas of Los Angeles. Aliso Village
was demolished in 1999 and replaced by a new housing project, Pueblo del Sol.
Nadel documented Aliso Village from 1948 to 1949. The book he assembled is a photographic study of four families - Asian,
African-American, Caucasian, and Latino - living in this historic community. Between 1949 and 1951 Nadel made a concerted
effort to find a publisher for the book. In 1949 he made a trip to Washington, D.C. and New York City to meet with supporters
and potential publishers. In addition to meeting with representatives from organizations such as the American Civil Liberties
Union and the American Council on Race Relations, he also met with photographers Edward Steichen and Roy Stryker, who assessed
his photographs. The related correspondence and Nadel's meeting notes are included in this subseries. Although there was interest
in the project at the time, the book was never published.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged thematically, and include views of the project, and of community life such as activities and organizations
within the project, and its schools. This is followed by a section on each of the four families Nadal documented in-depth,
as well as notes pertaining to Aliso Village in general, and the families in particular. The last part of the subseries consists
of the book matter, including slides of the selected images, the introductory text, the maquette, and correspondence and notes
regarding the book and Nadel's efforts to publish it.
Views of Aliso Village,
1948-1949
Box 6, Folder 10
Aerial view in winter,
1948 January 12
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Taken after a snowfall.
Box 6, Folder 11
Aerial views of Aliso Village from Lookout Mountain,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 6, Folder 12
View of Aliso Village through slum,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 6, Folder 13
Slums near Aliso Village,
1948 October 28
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes two girls playing ball in a back courtyard.
Exterior views,
circa 1948-1949
Box 6, Folder 14
Group A,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
34.0 items
(33 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Group labeled "A" on envelope.
Box 6, Folder 15
Group B,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
9.0 items
(7 negatives, 1 envelope, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
Group labeled "B" on envelope.
Box 6, Folder 16
Exteriors with people,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
19.0 items
(17 prints, 1 envelope, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
Includes view of the housing project from the freeway.
Box 6, Folder 17
Administration building,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 6, Folder 18
Maintenance,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Tree spraying and exterior painting.
Box 6, Folder 19
Infrastructure,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
7.0 items
(6 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes the reception office, maintenance shop, and community bulletin boards.
Box 6, Folder 20
1500 children sign,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
(2 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Sign bearing the legend: 1500 children live here. Please drive carefully.
Box 6, Folder 21
Outdoor laundry lines,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(1 negative, 2 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
132 N. Clarence St.
Box 6, Folder 22
Laundry scenes,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 negatives, 1 envelope)
Resident Council,
circa 1948-1949
Box 7, Folder 1
November 1948 meeting,
1948 November 1
Physical Description:
25.0 items
(24 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 2
Resident Council II meeting,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
6.0 items
(5 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 3
Couple at a Resident Council meeting,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 4
Management and Resident Council meeting,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Meeting of residents and staff around desk of Miss Hedges.
Box 7, Folder 5
Management and Inter-council meeting,
1948 November 8
Physical Description:
10.0 items
(9 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 6
Negatives,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
17.0 items
(14 negatives, 1 envelope, 2 note cards)
Box 7, Folder 7
Prints,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Mothers and babies.
Box 7, Folder 8
Immunization at Utah St. school,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
7.0 items
(6 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
One of the children being immunized is Arthur Ramirez, Jr.
Movie night,
circa 1948-1949
Box 7, Folder 9
Negatives,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
9.0 items
(8 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 10
Print,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Children watching movie.
Conflicts,
circa 1948-1949
Box 7, Folder 11
Negatives,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Boys fighting, little girl on her knees.
Box 7, Folder 12
Prints,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Boys fighting.
Children and children's activities,
1948-1949
Box 7, Folder 13
Children in mixed groups,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
9.0 items
(8 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 14
Children's activities,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
12.0 items
(11 negatives,1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Children playing on the catwalk, playing football, in kindergarten, at story time, and portraits of children.
Box 7, Folder 15
Little children,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
6.0 items
(5 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Looking out of windows, sitting on stoop, playing.
Box 7, Folder 16
Recreation at school,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
12.0 items
(11 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Playing marbles, tetherball, basketball, on playground equipment, and other games.
Box 7, Folder 17
Marionette show,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
9.0 items
(8 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 18
Puppets,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
1.0 items
(1 envelope)
Folk dancing,
circa 1948-1949
Box 7, Folder 19
Negatives,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(4 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 20
Prints,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Ping pong,
circa 1948-1949
Scope and Content Note
Junior games and craft (community hall).
Box 7, Folder 21
Negatives,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 22
Prints,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 23
School sports,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
13.0 items
(11 negatives, 2 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Teen sports including football, basketball, volleyball, gymnastics (pole rings), and spectators.
Box 7, Folder 24
Boys playing football,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 25
Young people at play,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 26
School Halloween party,
1948
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 negative, 1 contact print)
Scope and Content Note
Bobbing for apples.
Box 7, Folder 27
Extended day care Halloween party,
1948 October 29
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Extended day care at Utah St. school. Miss Sanderson (head teacher) with children at long tables.
Box 7, Folder 28
Christmas party in the auditorium,
1948
Physical Description:
8.0 items
(7 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 29
Mr. Taggert as Santa Claus,
1948
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Children talking to Santa and children watching program.
Box 7, Folder 30
Jr. Santa Claus,
1948
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 negative, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Child dressed as Santa Claus.
Box 7, Folder 31
Family looking out of window with Christmas decorations,
1948
Physical Description:
6.0 items
(5 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes a boy looking out of a window.
Parent Teacher Association (PTA),
circa 1948-1949
Box 7, Folder 32
PTA November 1948 meeting,
1948 November 8
Physical Description:
8.0 items
(7 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 33
Women at PTA meeting,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 34
Audience and speakers,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
11.0 items
(11 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Audience is comprised of mothers, some with small children.
Playgroup,
circa 1948-1949
Box 7, Folder 35
Christmas playgroup benefit,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 36
Benefit for playgroup,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 37
Children at playgroup,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
((3 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 38
Playgroup meeting,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
9.0 items
(8 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Ruth Wong, Patsy Ramirez, and others.
Box 7, Folder 39
Playgroup loop,
1948 November 1
Physical Description:
28.0 items
(27 negatives, 1 envelope)
Nursery school,
circa 1948-1949
Box 7, Folder 40
Entrance,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 negative, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 41
Two children standing against fence,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 42
Outdoor and indoor actvities,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
23.0 items
(22 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 43
Eating,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 44
Sleeping,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 45
Nap time,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 7, Folder 46
Lunch,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
11.0 items
(10 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes children on playground equipment.
Box 7, Folder 47
Jungle gym,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
6.0 items
(5 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 1
Thanksgiving play,
1948
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 2
Thanksgiving party,
1948
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Boy Scouts,
circa 1948-1949
Box 8, Folder 3
Boy Scout troop,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
6.0 items
(5 negatives, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
First aid (William Taggert), presentation of colors (William Taggert and Charles Wilson), drills.
Box 8, Folder 4
Presentation of colors,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Troop includes Charles Wilson and William Taggart, Jr.
Box 8, Folder 5
Young craft group in community hall,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 negatives, 1 envelope)
Food shopping truck,
circa 1948-1949
Box 8, Folder 6
Negatives,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 negative, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Original envelope contained two glassine sleeves. Negative for Aliso building through slum door is missing.
Box 8, Folder 7
Prints,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Contact prints of various actvities,
circa 1948-1949
Scope and Content Note
Many of the contact prints are represented in other Aliso Village groupings, as negatives and/or prints.
Box 8, Folder 8
General and community activities,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
136.0 items
(1 negative, 135 prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 9
Community activities,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
184.0 items
(1 negative, 183 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Contact prints.
Four families,
circa 1948-1949
Box 8, Folder 10
Group shot,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
10.0 items
(9 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 11
Families standing around,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 negatives, 1 envelope)
Wong family,
circa 1948-1949
Box 8, Folder 12
Family portrait,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 13
Wongs shopping,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope, 1 notecard)
Box 8, Folder 14
George Wong at school,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 15
Richie Wong at playgroup,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
Box 8, Folder 16
Richie Wong's third birthday party,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
Box 8, Folder 17
Lunch,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 18
Supper,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
6.0 items
(5 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes George Wong with Richie.
Box 8, Folder 19
Mrs. Wong at ceramics class,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 20
Mrs. Wong at clinic,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 21
Wongs at Griffith Park Zoo,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
13.0 items
(12 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 22
Trimming the Christmas tree,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 23
George Wong at work,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
8.0 items
(7 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Lettering on door reads: County Auditor, Budget and Report Division, Property Section.
Ramirez family,
circa 1948-1949
Box 8, Folder 24
Bath time,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
15.0 items
(13 contact prints, 1 envelope, 1 note card)
Box 8, Folder 25
Boys playing at home,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 26
Pillow fight,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 27
Mr. Ramirez teaching a class,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
7.0 items
(6 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 28
Ramirez boys at playgroup,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 29
Repairing the car,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 30
Mr. Ramirez at Catholic Youth Organization (CYO),
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 31
Family at home,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
6.0 items
(5 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Patsy Ramirez ironing.
Box 8, Folder 32
Mr. and Mrs. Ramirez decorating the Christmas tree,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes Ramirez family portrait and Patsy Ramirez playing tennis.
Box 8, Folder 33
Mr. Ramirez studying in the library,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 34
Ramirez family at supper,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
8.0 items
(7 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Also Mr. Ramirez playing with baby and boys reading.
Box 8, Folder 35
On a Sunday stroll,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 36
Mr. Ramirez as basketball referee,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Wilson family,
circa 1948-1949
Box 8, Folder 37
Charles Wilson in kitchen,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope, 1 note card)
Box 8, Folder 38
At supper,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
6.0 items
(5 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes Mr. Wilson working at table, Mrs. Wilson doing laundry, boys washing dishes.
Box 8, Folder 39
Wilson boys in Sunday school,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 40
Mrs. Wilson in sewing class,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 41
Saul Wilson at Tenderfoot ceremony,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 42
Social tea,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 43
Wilson family relaxing,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Taggart family,
circa 1948-1949
Box 8, Folder 44
Family portrait,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
6.0 items
(5 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes large group of children and adults from the community gathered in the Taggert's [?] living room.
Box 8, Folder 45
Bluegirls,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope, 1 notecard)
Box 8, Folder 46
Mr. Taggart and baby,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 47
Taggert family at supper,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(4 contact prints, 1 envelope
Box 8, Folder 48
Taggarts and home counselor,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
6.0 items
(5 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Discussing budget, teaching canning.
Box 8, Folder 49
Christmas,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Bringing in Christmas tree, dressing up as Santa.
Box 8, Folder 50
Boy sick in bed,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.0 items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 51
Mr. Taggart doing laundry,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 52
Mr. Taggart working a printing press,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 53
Richard Taggart in class,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
5.0 items
(4 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 54
Taggart boys washing dishes,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
(3 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Box 8, Folder 55
Mrs. Taggart giving son a haircut,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
2.0 items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope)
Box 9, Folder 1
Notes on Aliso Village,
circa 1948-1949
Physical Description:
36.0 items
(1 envelope, 35 note cards)
Scope and Content Note
On envelope: Notations by photographer Leonard Nadel while working on the Aliso Village project - (quotes that inspired him,
among them: Nature has no favorite nation, color, creed or occupation any place you point your finger to, there's someone
with the same blood as you.)
Box 12, Folder 2
Slides,
undated
Physical Description:
18.0 items
(17 slides, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
35 mm. black-and-white slides of inhabitants, activities, and exteriors.
Box 13, Folder 5
Permissions to photograph families,
1949-1950
Physical Description:
22.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Signed consents from families (full and exclusive permission to copyright, use and publish photographs).
Box 13, Folder 6
Chart of family and inter-resident interactions,
circa 1949
Physical Description:
5.0 sheets
Texts for "Aliso Village, U.S.A."
1949
Box 9, Folder 2
Aliso text,
1949
Physical Description:
23.0 items
(22 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 9, Folder 3
Aliso text type,
1949
Physical Description:
44.0 items
(43 negatives, 1 envelope)
Box 13, Folder 7
Introduction to book,
circa 1949
Physical Description:
1.0 item
Scope and Content Note
Typescript introduction to the book by Loren Miller.
Box 12, Folder 3
Copy slides of images used in book,
Negatives 1949, slides 1994
Physical Description:
65.0 slides
Box 10, Folder 1
"Aliso Village, U.S.A.",
circa 1949
Physical Description:
1.0 volume
Scope and Content Note
Bound unpublished volume of 122 pages with 136 gelatin silver photographs.
Box 13, Folder 8
Nadel's writings regarding the book,
circa 1949
Physical Description:
4.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Contains the following typescript documents by Nadel about the book: Exhibit on Aliso Village study; Aliso Village; The concept;
and Aliso Village, U.S.A.
Correspondence and meeting notes,
1949-1951, undated
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding atttempts to find a publisher for the book. Also includes hand-written and typescript notes from
meetings with supporters and potential publishers.
Box 13, Folder 9
May 10 - May 24, 1949
Physical Description:
7.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Letter from Floyd C. Covington executive director of the Los Angeles Urban League, to Lester B. Granger, executive director
of the National Urban League, introducing and recommending Nadel and his Aliso Village project. Letter from Carey McWilliams
to Nadel. Letter from Jack J. Spitzer to Rabbi S. Andhil Fineberg, director of the Community Service Department, American
Jewish Committee, asking for support to publish Nadel's work. Letter from Floyd C. Covington to Leslie W. Ganyard, secretary
of the Rosenberg Foundation.
Box 13, Folder 10
June 1949
Physical Description:
6.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Letter from Kenneth Hahn, chairman, Los Angeles County Conference on Community Relations, to Nadel. Letter from A. A. Heist,
director, American Civil Liberties Union, to Morris Ernst. Letter from Jack J. Spitzer, assistant executive director, Community
Relations Committee of the Los Angeles Jewish Community Council, to Nadel. Letter from Herschell Chanin, Jewish Labor Committee,
to Irving Salert.
Box 13, Folder 11
July 20 - July 29, 1949
Physical Description:
6.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Summaries of meetings with Louis Hosch, executive secretary of the American Council on Race Relations; Roland Hemans; assistant
director of the University of Chicago Press; W.T. Couch, director of the University of Chicago Press; Coleman Woddbury, director
of Urban Redevelopment Study; Mrs. Dorothy Gazzolo, editor of
Journal of Housing; and James Brown III, trustee of the Marshall Field Foundation. Letter from Nadel to Dr. Louis Wirth, American Council on
Race Relations.
Box 13, Folder 12
August 1949
Physical Description:
11.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Summary of meetings with Clarence Johnson, east coast regional race relations advisor for the Federal Housing Agency; Thomas
Creighton,
Progressive Architecture; Dr. Louis Wirth, director of the American Council on Race Relations; Dr. Gerald Breese, director of the Social Science Research
Council; and Franklin Thorne and Dr. McGraw, Race Relations, Federal Housing Authority; Charles Abrams, publisher; Phillip
Vaudrin, editor of the Oxford Press; Leo Johnson, director of the National Public Housing Conference. Letter from Victor Kayfetz
(Victor Kayfetz Productions) to Nadel.
Box 13, Folder 13
September 1949
Physical Description:
9.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Notes on meeting with the following persons: Edward Steichen; Miss Rose Terlin, editor of YWCA publications; Dr. Robt Weaver,
New York University sociology department; Dr. Robert Merton, Columbia University, sociology editor for Harcourt Brace & Co.;
Mrs. Dorothy Nathan, Community Service Department, American Jewish Committee; and Dr. Nadhil Fineberg, American Jewish Committee.
Correspondence with John Morris, picture editor,
The Ladies Home Journal.
Box 13, Folder 14
October 1949
Physical Description:
1.0 item
Scope and Content Note
Notes on meeting with Roy Stryker.
Box 13, Folder 15
1950 - 1951
Physical Description:
21.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Summaries of meetings with Francis Brennan, picture editor,
Life History of WWII; Lee Jones, picture editor,
This Week; Mrs. Anna Wolfe; children's editor,
Woman's Home Companion; Ted Gorkinm picture editor,
Parade; Holmer Cable, picture editor,
Look; William White, picture editor,
Daily News; Mr. Borstadt, picture editor,
Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia. Correspondence with John Morris; picture editor,
Ladies Home Journal. Letter from Victor Kayfetz.
Box 13, Folder 16
Exhibitions,
1951
Physical Description:
4.0 items
Box 13, Folder 17
Filmstrip copyright agreement,
undated
Physical Description:
2.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Agreement between Leonard Nadel and Robert Friedman and Donald Weiss, producers and writers, pertaining to production and
distribution of two film strips on Aliso Village. The agreement is signed by Nadel and Friedman.
