Finding aid for the Leonard Nadel photographs and other material relating to
housing and urban redevelopment in Los Angeles, 1947-1998, bulk 1947-1957
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
Physical Description:
8.75 Linear Feet
(14 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Consisting primarily of photographic
materials created by Leonard Nadel from 1947 to 1957, the archive records early efforts by
the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) to create public housing for the
city's growing 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black-and-white negatives, contact prints, and two unpublished photographic books form the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 material, 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. His parents worked in the
garment district. After graduating from City College of New York, Nadel trained at the Army
Signal Corps Photographic Center (SPCP) in Astoria, New York, and then served as a lab
technician and combat photographer during World War II in Australia, New Guinea, and the
Philippine Islands. After leaving the army, he returned to New York and earned 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 this
time he began photographing public housing sites.
In 1947 and 1948, Nadel photographed the Pueblo del Rio housing development in South
Central Los Angeles, which was originally built between 1941 and 1942 for Black defense
industry workers. Nadel showed his material to Frank Wilkinson, the assistant diretor 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 both in Los Angeles's slums and in 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. Consequently,
Nadel to leave HACLA in 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 of 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 tribal group 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.
Sources consulted:
_____ "Pueblo del Rio."
http://historicplacesla.org/reports/3b706ba6-ffad-47d3-9dc9-f782a4b2ba6b
_____ "Pueblo del Rio Housing Project, Los Angeles, CA." Paul Revere Williams, American
Architect: A Man and His Works.
https://www.paulrwilliamsproject.org/gallery/1940s-multifamily-housing/
Jones, Stephen. "The Bunker Hill Story: Welfare, Redevelopment, and Housing Crisis in
Postwar Los Angeles."
CUNY Academic Works (2017).
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2344
McCarthy, Maggie. "Introduction to Public Housing."
Congressional
Research Service
7-5700 (2014). www.crs.gov R41654
Marks, Mara A. "Shifting Ground: The Rise and Fall of the Los Angeles Community
Redevelopment Agency."
Southern California Quarterly 86, no.
3 (2004) doi:10.2307/41172224.
Normark, Don.
Chávez Ravine, 1949: A Los Angeles Story. San
Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999. Peleg, Oren. "Photos: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of
Bunker Hill, "
LAist, Apr 26, 2017.
https://laist.com/news/bunker-hill-gallery
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
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.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2002m42
Acquisition information
Acquired in 2002.
Processing Information
The collection processing was begun by Soohyun Yang in the spring of 2011. Yang wrote a
preliminary finding aid. Beth Ann Guynn and Linda Kleiger continued processing the
collection and writing the finding aid in the fall and winter of 2011. Guynn revised the
finding aid in 2021.
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.
Digitized Material
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 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 produced by Leonard Nadel between 1947 and
1957, the archive records early efforts by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
(HACLA) to to create public housing for the city's growing 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 material, supplemented by handwritten notes and related documents. Also included
are two unpublished books produced by Nadel.
Series I comprises 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
both slum and project life in post-war Los Angeles. 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 life and project-supported social networks of their tenants.
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
Wilkinson, Frank,
1914-2006
Wright, Lloyd,
1890-1978
Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970
Alexander, Robert Evans, 1907-1992
Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973
Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975
Subjects - Corporate Bodies
Housing Authority of the City
of Los Angeles, California
Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles
Subjects - Topics
Public housing -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century
Urban renewal -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century
Subjects - Places
Los Angeles Region (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th
century
Ramona Gardens (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Description and
travel
Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Description and
travel
Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Description and
travel
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Description and travel
Aliso Village (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Description and
travel
Slums -- New York (State) -- New York
Slums -- California -- Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- -Description and
travel
Genres and Forms of Material
Videocassettes -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th
century
Gelatin silver prints -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th
century
Photographs, Original
Panoramas -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century
Black-and-white negatives -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th
century
Aerial photographs -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th
century
Contributors
Nadel, Leonard
Series I.
Projects related to housing and urban redevelopment,
1947-1998,
undated
Physical Description:
3 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 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.
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.
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.
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
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear
Feet
Scope and Content Note
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."
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.
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.
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.
Arrangement
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.
box 13, folder 1
The 8th, 9th, and 10th consolidated annual report of the Housing Authority
of Los Angeles,
1948
Physical Description:
1
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
And Ten Thousand More
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
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.
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.
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
items
(30 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
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).
box 1, folder 2
Tent living on Rose Hill,
1948 October
14
Physical Description:
13
items
(11 negatives, 1 envelope, 1 note
card)
Scope and Content Note
Documents the homes of the Perea (2701 Amethyst St.), and Allman (4000 Amethyst
St.) families. On envelope: Slums - tents (Rose Hill).
box 1, folder 3
219 N. Olive St.,
1948 October
21
Physical Description:
6
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
items
(4 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes one interior scene with a woman and girl washing. On envelope: Fire
(housing).
box 1, folder 5
Chaney family, Hewitt St.,
1950 April
21
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 negative, 1
envelope)
box 1, folder 6
Fickett Hollow slums,
1950 July
22
Physical Description:
7
items
(3 negatives, 3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Fickett Hollow area of Boyle Heights. Also includes a view of tenements behind
City Hall.
box 1, folder 7
Demolition progress,
1952 June
2
Physical Description:
5
items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 1, folder 8
Children, Aliso Alley,
1952 July
15
Physical Description:
3
items
(1 print, 1 negative, 1
envelope)
box 1, folder 9
Fire, Aliso,
1952 September
12
Physical Description:
6
items
(3 negatives, 2 prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Firefighters putting out a fire.
box 1, folder 10
205 N. Flower,
1952 June
9
Physical Description:
3
items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
box 1, folder 11
Ord St. near City Hall,
1952 June
12
Physical Description:
3
items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
box 1, folder 12
Mission Rd.,
1952 July
23
Physical Description:
3
items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
box 1, folder 13
319 N. Mission Rd.,
1952 August
22
Physical Description:
3
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
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
items
(5 negatives, 2 contact prints, 3
envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Includes views of Chávez Ravine. On envelope: Chávez (old ones).
box 1, folder 16
730 W. Third St.,
1952 July
17
Physical Description:
4
items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 2
envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
View of tenement with outhouses.
box 1, folder 17
Bauchet St.,
1952 August
22
Physical Description:
5
items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Rear patio with boy standing under laundry lines.
box 1, folder 18
Shacks and outhouse,
undated
Physical Description:
8
items
(4 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1
envelope, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
Shows one- and -two-story housing, an outhouse, and housing demolition. On
envelope: Slums.
box 1, folder 19
Slum house, Bowery,
undated
Physical Description:
5
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
Slums (location unidentifed),
undated
Physical Description:
20
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
box 1, folder 21
Photo exhibition at Ramona Gardens,
1949 March
7
Physical Description:
7
items
(6 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
The images depict residents viewing an exhibition of Nadel's (?) work depicting
community life and activities in Ramona Gardens.
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.
box 1, folder 22
Rose Hill Courts, Avalon Gardens,
undated
Physical Description:
13
items
(6 negatives, 5 contact prints, 1
envelope, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
Primarily views of mixed groups of children playing outdoors.
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.
box 1, folder 23
Avalon Gardens,
undated
Physical Description:
10
items
(9 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Depicts an outdoor carnival. Also included is a portrait of Georgia Ferris, a
white girl.
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.
Veterans housing,
1949,
undated
box 1, folder 24
Inter-council conference,
undated
Physical Description:
3
items
(2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Materials displayed on the walls relate to veterans housing.
box 1, folder 25
Basilone homes,
1949 January
12
Physical Description:
18
items
(9 negatives, 8 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Homes for veterans sign. People playing in the snow. Children making
snowman.
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.
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
items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
box 1, folder 27
Civic Center views,
1951 January
10
Physical Description:
21
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 the Los
Angeles River.
box 1, folder 28
Demolition, Civic Center, First Street,
1951 July
13
Physical Description:
32
items
(16 negatives, 14 contact prints, 2
envelopes)
box 1, folder 29
Tenements near City Hall,
undated
Physical Description:
4
items
(2 negatives, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Exterior views. Includes a view of the Los Angeles River.
box 1, folder 30
Channel Heights,
1950 June
16
Physical Description:
5
items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
View of housing with children playing on lawn.
The Channel Heights Housing Project was built for defense workers at the port of
San Pedro. It was designed by Richard Neutra in 1942.
box 1, folder 31
Rancho San Pedro grading,
1952 July
24
Physical Description:
11
items
(5 negatives, 5 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
S. Mesa to Centre and W. First to Second St. area.
Rancho San Pedro was constructed in 1942 for defense workers and was converted to
public housing in 1952.
Elysian Park Heights project,
1950-1997,
undated
1950-1962
Scope and Content Note
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.
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.
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.
box 1, folder 32
Chávez views,
1950 April-1950
June
Physical Description:
54
items
(27 negatives, 22 contact prints, 4
envelopes, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 13, folder 3
Panoramas,
1950-1997,
undated
Physical Description:
13
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 (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.
box 1, folder 33
Panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles from Elysian Park,
circa
1950
Physical Description:
10
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,
circa
1950
Physical Description:
3
items
(1 negative, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
City Hall seen through palm trees in Chávez Ravine.
box 2, folder 2
Dirt roads, Chávez,
1950 April
21
Physical Description:
27
items
(12 negatives, 12 contact prints, 1
envelope, 2 note cards)
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 2, folder 3
Street scenes,
1950 April
23
Physical Description:
5
items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 2, folder 4
Sheep grazing,
1950 April 29 and
1950 May 1
Physical Description:
20
items
(14 negatives, 3 contact prints, 1
envelope, 2 note cards)
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 2, folder 5
Yolo Dr. and Pine St.,
circa
1950
Physical Description:
5
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 kids,
1950 August
31
Physical Description:
3
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
items
(11 negatives, 33 prints, 1
envelope, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
Architects depicted include Richard Neutra, Robert Alexander, Patterson, and
Mr. Cimino from the Development Division.
box 2, folder 8
Chávez architects' conference,
1950
Physical Description:
13
items
(12 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Participants include: 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,
1950
Physical Description:
5
items
(4 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes Richard Neutra, Robert Alexander, and Cimino. On envelope: Chávez
architect's conference: Neutra, Alex., Cimino.
box 2, folder 10
Drafting department and development division,
1950 October
2
Physical Description:
25
items
(12 negatives, 12 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Occupational portraits of Pete Perez, Lou Clerging [?], Jack Thass [?], and Sam
Beckett.
box 2, folder 11
Personnel,
circa
1950
Physical Description:
9
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
items
(3 negatives, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Identified on envelope: Rosen, F. W. [Frank Wilkinson], Nadel, Cimino. Also
includes an unidentified woman.
box 2, folder 13
Panorama of Lookout Mt. area,
1951 December
5
Physical Description:
5
items
(3 negatives, 1 contact print, 1
envelope)
box 2, folder 14
Views and meetings,
1952,
undated
Physical Description:
32
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, 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.
box 2, folder 15
Chávez demolition work,
1952 June 12 and
1952 July 8
Physical Description:
7
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
items
(7 negatives, 7 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes homes and buildings being demolished, burned, or moved to new
sites.
box 2, folder 17
Broad views of demolition,
1952 July
8
Physical Description:
11
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
items
(13 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes views of slopes with houses, children playing, and a ranchito. On
envelope: Chávez (old ones).
box 2, folder 19
Mailboxes,
1952 July
8
Physical Description:
3
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
items
(6 negatives, 5 contact prints, 5
envelopes, 1 note card)
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 2, folder 21
Mexican dance group at Palo Verde School,
undated
Physical Description:
34
items
(10 negatives, 22 contact prints, 1
envelope, 1 note card)
box 2, folder 22
Portrait of an older Black man,
undated
Physical Description:
5
items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
On envelope: Chávez.
Frank Wilkinson,
1950-1997,
undated
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 13, folder 2
Correspondence and articles,
1950-1997
Physical Description:
10
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
items
(10 negatives, 7 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Annotations on envelope: NYC housing tour; Wilkinson housing tour. Many images
show Wilkinson surveying and climbing among demolition rubble.
Hearings, publicity,
1951-1953
box 2, folder 24
Citizens Against Socialist Housing (CASH) and Mayor's
hearings,
circa
1951-1953
Physical Description:
27
items
(13 negatives, 13 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
CASH was led by Frederick Dockweiler, a lawyer active in Los Angeles and
California political issues, especially as an opponent of public housing
initiatives.
On envelope: CASH and Mayor's hearings.
box 2, folder 25
Housing Authority campaign (television),
1952 June
2
Physical Description:
7
items
(3 negatives, 3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 2, folder 26
Protesters picketing public housing,
1952 June
28
Physical Description:
5
items
(2 negatives, 2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
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?).
Series I.B.
Community Redevelopment Agency,
1948-1998,
undated
Leonard Nadel photographs of Community Redevelopment Agency projects,
1948-1998
Physical Description:
1 Linear
Feet
Scope and Content Note
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.
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.
Arrangement
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.
Urban Redevelopment Commission,
1949-1955
box 2, folder 27
Tour,
1949 April
26,
Physical Description:
59
items
(28 negatives, 29 contact prints, 2
envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Participants included Brock, Sasesman [?], Rhea, and Holtzendorf. Also includes a
view of the Cole Hotel.
box 2, folder 28
Santa Fe area,
1950 December
28
Physical Description:
50
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
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
box 3, folder 3
Bunker Hill scale model (Babcock report),
1951 January 17
Physical Description:
12
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
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
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
items
(3 negatives, 3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 3, folder 7
Aerials,
1955 November 15
Physical Description:
19
items
(18 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes six negatives of an older white couple on a porch and one negative of an
older white man leaning on a porch rail.
box 3, folder 8
Fremont Ave., Figueroa St.,
1955 September 16
Physical Description:
41
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
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
items
(4 negatives, 5 envelopes, 1 note
card)
Scope and Content Note
Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 18-21. Interior images with a woman and two little
girls.
box 3, folder 11
W. Second St. area,
1955 September 21-1955 September
22
Physical Description:
55
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. 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.
box 3, folder 12
134 Fremont Ave.,
1955 September 21-1955 September
22
Physical Description:
35
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. Images of residents,
including children playing in areas behind housing and in empty lots.
box 3, folder 13
Clay St.,
1955 September 27
Physical Description:
16
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. Images of housing, streets, parking lots, and Angels
Flight.
box 3, folder 14
Figueroa St.,
1955 September 29
Physical Description:
13
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
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. Interior shots and living conditions, some including the residents.
box 3, folder 16
Slums,
1955 September 30
Physical Description:
22
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; 820 W. First; 355 S. Bunker Hill; and Clay St. Group numbered Bunker
Hill 2, 78-87a. Mostly interior shots, many with residents.
box 3, folder 17
Substandard housing,
1955 October 5
Physical Description:
24
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. Images include residents depicted in their interiors;
details of substandard conditions and decay.
box 3, folder 18
Substandard and poor housing,
1955 October 6
Physical Description:
17
items
(7 negatives, 8 envelopes, 2 note
cards)
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 3, folder 19
Slums, stores, alleys, and street conditions,
1955 October 8-1955 October
10
Physical Description:
36
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. File name is a compilation of
keywords written on the numerous envelopes.
box 4, folder 1
Playgrounds, substandard, poor, and acceptable housing, traffic, and
general views,
1955 October 18
Physical Description:
45
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. 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.
box 4, folder 2
General views, traffic, playgrounds,
1955 October 19
Physical Description:
29
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. 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.
box 4, folder 3
Traffic, land use, housing (poor, substandard, slums) and street
conditions, shopping, and recreation,
1955 October 26
Physical Description:
52
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; 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.
Group numbered Bunker Hill 2, 149-174. File name is a compilation of keywords
written on the numerous envelopes.
box 4, folder 4
Traffic and general views,
1955 October 26
Physical Description:
14
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 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.
box 4, folder 5
Housing (acceptable, poor, substandard) and street
conditions,
1955 October 31
Physical Description:
30
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. File name is a compilation of keywords written on the numerous
envelopes.
box 4, folder 6
Shopping,
1955 November 29
Physical Description:
26
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 Street tunnel. Group numbered Bunker Hill 2,
193-204.
box 4, folder 7
People,
1955 November 9
Physical Description:
15
items
(7 negatives, 8
envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 4, folder 8
County garage,
1956 January 12
Physical Description:
6
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 180-acre Temple Street area
on the northwest border of Bunker Hill 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
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
items
(6 negatives, 7 envelopes, 3 note
cards)
Scope and Content Note
Group numbered Temple 2a-7b. Includes views of a kitchen with several small
children.
box 4, folder 11
General views, land use and streets, and public and residential
buildings,
1956 August 14-1957 November
16
Physical Description:
37
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; shopping on the corner of Temple and Fremont; and apartment
interiors. Group numbered Temple 31-48.
box 4, folder 12
Residential,
1956 August 14-1957 November
18
Physical Description:
17
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. 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.
box 4, folder 13
Slums (interiors),
1957 July 25
Physical Description:
3
items
(1 envelope, 2 note
cards)
box 4, folder 14
Residential interiors,
1957 November 25
Physical Description:
25
items
(12 negatives, 13
envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 4, folder 15
Streets, public and residential buildings,
1957 November 14
Physical Description:
23
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
items
(19 negatives, 20
envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 4, folder 17
Land use, shopping, residential, and recreation,
1957 November 21
Physical Description:
49
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
items
(21 negatives, 22
envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 12, folder 1
Views and housing,
undated
Physical Description:
22
items
(21 slides, 1 slide
box)
Scope and Content Note
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.
Ann Street,
1952-1956
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 5, folder 2
Houses,
1952 June 18
Physical Description:
53
items
(17 negatives, 17 contact prints, 1
note card, 18 envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Primarily front and rear views of housing.
box 5, folder 3
Demolition ceremony,
1956 January 11
Physical Description:
23
items
(22 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 5, folder 4
Houses and commercial buildings,
1952 June 12
Physical Description:
64
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[___]. Exterior views of housing and mixed use
areas.
box 5, folder 5
Gas tank,
1952 November 18
Physical Description:
6
items
(5 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Also includes the area around Second and Hill streets, and City Hall and a
rendering of the propsed redeveloment of the area.
box 13, folder 4
Correspondence and notes,
1951-1998,
undated
Physical Description:
3
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
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear
Feet
Scope and Content Note
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.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged thematically, by subject, or by the names of known
individuals.
box 5, folder 6
Monsignor O'Dwyer,
undated
Physical Description:
4
items
(1 negative, 2 envelopes, 1
print)
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 5, folder 7
Discrimination,
undated
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 negative, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Sign on fire escape landing 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
items
(3 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Three views of the congregation during a service. Note on envelope: Not used.
box 5, folder 9
Ed Davenport,
undated
Container Summary: (4
negatives, 4 contact prints, 1 envelope)
Scope and Content Note
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."
box 5, folder 10
Richard Lewis,
undated
Physical Description:
5
items
(4 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Richard Lewis, a Black musician who was blind, performing at Sixteenth and Central
streets.
box 5, folder 11
Blind female folk singer,
undated
Physical Description:
11
items
(7 negatives, 3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 5, folder 12
People, powerlines, and views,
undated
Physical Description:
19
items
(19 negatives and two
envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 5, folder 13
Storefronts and people on streets,
undated
Physical Description:
10
items
(8 negatives, 2
envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
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.
box 13, folder 18
Watts,
1990,
undated
Physical Description:
7
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 a Black boy
crying.
Series II.
Unpublished books,
1947-1994,
undated
1947-1949
Physical Description:
5.25 Linear
Feet
(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
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
Physical Description:
2 Linear
Feet
Scope and Content Note
The subseries comprises Nadel's unpublished book, "Pueblo del Rio: The Study of a
Planned Community," and additional photographic material related to the project. 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.
Originally built between 1941 and 1942 to house Black defense industry workers and
enlisted military personel and their families during a nationwide housing shortage,
Pueblo del Rio is located at 52nd Street and Long Beach Avenue in South Central Los
Angeles in one of the city's older residential areas. Existing substandard housing on
the 17.5 acre site was razed to build the garden city-style complex of 57 two-story
apartment buildings (400 apartments) and a single-story administration building. Some
of Nadel's views of the complex are taken from the vantage point of the deteriorated
doorways of the older housing still exant across the street from the site. Due to
wartime restrictions and material shortages, Pueblo del Rio was built soley out of
brick masonry and reinforced concrete.
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, the first Black
architect certified west of the Mississippi, who was known as the "architect to the
stars" for the numerous private residences he designed for the Hollywood elite.
Some of the families currently living in Pueblo Del Rio have been there more than
three generations. In 1954, 270 additional apartments were built on an adjoining 16.6
acre site. For three decades the complexes flourished, yet, when the nearby factories
shut down in the 1970s many of Pueblo del Rio's residents spiralled into poverty and
the project's demographics began to shift. In the 1990s, Latinos began moving into the
housing complex. Today, Pueblo Del Rio is a mixed community comprising Black, Latino,
and Cambodian families.
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.
Arrangement
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 comprises the book matter, including selected images, text, and the
maquette.
box 5, folder 14
Aerial view,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
2
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
items
(18 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Images of two maps titled "Map showing public housing developments under the
managment of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angles" and "Unit and
housing numbering map." Also inclued are views of the project; residents; scenes
of daily life (areas for hanging laundry, baseball, mail delivery); and of a sign
bearing the legend: 1200 children living here please drive carefully. On envelope:
Housing project.
box 5, folder 16
Unit and house numbering map,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
3
items
(2 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
On envelope: Unit map.
box 5, folder 17
View from across the railroad tracks,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
7
items
(5 negatives, 1 envelope, 1 note
card)
Scope and Content Note
Also includes images of nearby (?) housing after a fire. On envelope: Pueblo and
fired shack. RR & children sign.
box 5, folder 18
Exterior views of Pueblo del Rio,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
6
items
(3 negatives, 1 envelopes, 2 note
cards)
Scope and Content Note
Also includes one image of a Black man in a office doing accounts. On envelope:
Pueblo del Rio - (good sky and clouds).
box 5, folder 19
Negro housing,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
5
items
(3 negatives, 1 envelope, 1 note
card)
Scope and Content Note
Also includes an image of the porch of an old house with a rocking chair and
flowers in a tin can.
Various subjects,
circa
1948
box 5, folder 20
Staff and office,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
8
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
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
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
Negro clinic,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
10
items
(9 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
People at clinic. Note reads: Not used [in book?].
box 5, folder 24
Negros outside church,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
4
items
(3 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes a little girl dressed in her "Sunday best."
box 5, folder 25
Negro interiors,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
10
items
(7 negatives, 1 envelope, 2 note
cards)
Scope and Content Note
Some images include inhabitants engaged in various activities.
box 5, folder 26
Interior of bedroom, kitchen,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
7
items
(3 negatives, 4
envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Kitchen, dining room, bedroom, and bathroom.
box 5, folder 27
Resident Council,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
3
items
(2 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Resident Council meeting.
box 5, folder 28
Ballet, ping pong, Murray's girl,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
4
items
(3 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 5, folder 29
Jamis,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 negative, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Environmental portrait of a young Black girl with her face leaning on her
hand.
box 5, folder 30
Talent nite,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
10
items
(9 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Performers and audience.
box 5, folder 31
Nursery, portrait of Mrs. Terry,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
13
items
(11 negatives, 1 envelope, 2 note
cards)
Scope and Content Note
Children in nursery classroom and playing or grouped outside. Includes an
exterior view of the Pueblo del Rio administration building, and an environmetal
portrait of Mrs. Terry, a Black woman (teacher?).
box 6, folder 1
Negro nursery children,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
12
items
(11 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 6, folder 2
Negro nursery,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
7
items
(6 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Children sitting on exterior steps; in playground; exteriors of buildings;
sprinklers going near playground.
box 6, folder 3
Mrs. Terry,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
18
items
(17 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Portraits of Mrs. Terry in her office and environmental portraits, including with
a young girl (student?).
Samuel family,
circa
1948
Scope and Content Note
Thomas and Bessie Samuels, a Black couple with three girls and two boys.
box 6, folder 4
Bessie Samuel's kitchen and family,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 negative, 1
envelope)
box 6, folder 5
Happy family,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
9
items
(8 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Samuels family in their living room; a baseball game; children with police
officer. Note reads: Not used [in book?].
box 6, folder 6
Group 1,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
51
items
(25 negatives, 26
envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Group labeled "1" on maniala envelope. Aerial views of downtown Los Angeles;
views of downtown substandard housing; views of Pueblo del Rio; 2203 Hunter
Street.
box 6, folder 7
Group 2,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
63
items
(31 negatives, 32
envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Group labeled "2" on manila envelope. Views of Pueblo del Rio; office workers;
grounds workers; interiors of apartment; Samuels family around table; nursery
school; resident meetings; health clinic.
box 6, folder 8
Group 3,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
25
items
(12 negatives, 13
envelopes)
Scope and Content Note
Group labeled "3" on manila envelope. Health clinic; congregation in church;
meetings; recreation.
box 6, folder 9
Text,
circa
1948
Physical Description:
42
items
(41 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of 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
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,
1948-1994,
undated
1948-1949
Leonard Nadel photographs of Aliso Village, 1948-1994, bulk 1948-1949
Physical Description:
3.25 Linear
Feet
Scope and Content Note
The subseries comprises Nadel's unpublished book, "Aliso Village, USA," and
additional material related to the housing 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 Pueblo del Sol, a new housing project.
Nadel documented Aliso Village from 1948 to 1949. The book he assembled is a
photographic study of four families - Asian American, Black, Caucasian, and Latino -
living in the new 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 former Farm Security
Administration (FSA) photographers Roy Stryker and Edward Steichen, who assessed his
photographs. The related correspondence and Nadel's meeting notes are included in this
subseries. Although varous parties expressed interest in the project at the time, the
book was never published.
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.
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
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
items
(3 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 6, folder 12
View of Aliso Village through slum,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
4
items
(3 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 6, folder 13
Slums near Aliso Village,
1948 October
28
Physical Description:
3
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
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
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
items
(17 prints, 1 envelope, 1 note
card)
Scope and Content Note
Includes a view of Aliso Village from the freeway.
box 6, folder 17
Administration building,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
3
items
(2 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 6, folder 18
Maintenance,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
4
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
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:
0
items
(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
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
items
(2 negatives, 1
envelope)
Resident Council,
circa
1948-1949
box 7, folder 1
November 1948 meeting,
1948 November
1
Physical Description:
25
items
(24 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 7, folder 2
Resident Council II meeting,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
6
items
(5 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 7, folder 3
Resident Council II,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 contact print, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Black couple at a Resident Council meeting.
box 7, folder 4
Management and Resident Council meeting,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
3
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
items
(9 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes one image of children on a stage manipulating marionettes.
Clinic,
circa
1948-1949
Scope and Content Note
Primarily images of baby examinations.
box 7, folder 6
Negatives,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
17
items
(14 negatives, 1 envelope, 2 note
cards)
box 7, folder 7
Prints,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
4
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
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
items
(8 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 7, folder 10
Print,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 contact print, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Children watching movie.
Boys fighting,
circa
1948-1949
Scope and Content Note
Images include two shots of two boys - Black and Latino (?) - fighting, with other
children onlookers; a Latino toddler kneeling; and two shots of a Latino dad and
kids working on a digging project.
box 7, folder 11
Negatives,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
4
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
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 area (mixed),
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
9
items
(8 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Images are primarily of preschool children.
box 7, folder 14
Kids at Aliso Village,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
12
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. Primarily outdoor shots of younger children.
box 7, folder 15
Little children,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
6
items
(5 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Children looking out of windows, sitting on stoop, playing. On envelope: Odds
& ends.
box 7, folder 16
Recreation at school,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
12
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
items
(8 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
On envelope: Puppet.
box 7, folder 18
Puppets,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
1
items
(1 envelope)
Folk dancing,
circa
1948-1949
Scope and Content Note
Images of a teen dance.
box 7, folder 19
Negatives,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
5
items
(4 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 7, folder 20
Prints,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
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
items
(2 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 7, folder 22
Prints,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 contact print, 1
envelope)
box 7, folder 23
School sports,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
13
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
items
(3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
On envelope: Sports / (Basketball) / (Football).
box 7, folder 25
Young people at play,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
4
items
(3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Boys playing marbles; girls and boys sitting along a schoolyard fence.
box 7, folder 26
School Halloween party,
1948
Physical Description:
2
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
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
items
(7 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 7, folder 29
Christmas party program,
1948
Physical Description:
4
items
(3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Children talking to Santa (Mr. Taggart) and children watching program.
box 7, folder 30
Jr. Santa Claus,
1948
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 negative, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Child dressed as Santa Claus.
box 7, folder 31
Looking thru Xmas window,
1948
Physical Description:
6
items
(5 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Includes children looking out of a window decorated with a snowman and Santa
scene; images of a boy looking out of window with a Christmas tree; and of another
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
items
(7 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 7, folder 33
Women at PTA meeting,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
4
items
(3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 7, folder 34
Audience and speakers,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
11
items
(11 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
The audience comprises mothers, some with small children. On envelope: PTA
meeting I.
Playgroup,
circa
1948-1949
box 7, folder 35
Playgroup benefit (Xmas),
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 contact print, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Depicts women preparing and serving food at the benefit.
box 7, folder 36
Benefit for playgroup,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
4
items
(3 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 7, folder 37
Playgroup,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
4
items
((3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Story hour, pumpking carving, and a party.
box 7, folder 38
Playgroup meeting,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
9
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
items
(27 negatives, 1
envelope)
Nursery school,
circa
1948-1949
box 7, folder 40
Nursery entrance,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 negative, 1
envelope)
box 7, folder 41
Nursery school (outside),
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 contact print, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Two children standing against fence.
box 7, folder 42
Nursery outdoors,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
23
items
(22 negatives, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Children and teachers participating in outdoor activities; with one view of the
cot room.
box 7, folder 43
Nursery (Eating),
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
3
items
(2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 7, folder 44
Nursery School (Sleeping),
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
3
items
(2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 7, folder 45
Nursery children sleeping,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
4
items
(3 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 7, folder 46
Nursery (Lunch),
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
11
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
items
(5 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 1
Kindergarten (Thanksgiving play),
1948
Physical Description:
4
items
(3 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 2
Kindergarten (Thanksgiving party),
1948
Physical Description:
4
items
(3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Boy Scouts,
circa
1948-1949
box 8, folder 3
Boy Scout troop,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
6
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
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
items
(2 negatives, 1
envelope)
Food shopping truck,
circa
1948-1949
box 8, folder 6
Negatives,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
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
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
items
(1 negative, 135 prints, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 9
Community activities,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
184
items
(1 negative, 183 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Contact prints.
Four families,
circa
1948-1949
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of the Wong, Rmirez, Wilson, and Taggert families who lived in Aliso
Village.
box 8, folder 10
Four families group shot,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
10
items
(9 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 11
Four families standing around,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
4
items
(3 negatives, 1
envelope)
Wong family,
circa
1948-1949
Scope and Content Note
Ruth and George Wong were a Chinese American couple with a young son, Richie
(Richey), who three years old at the time Nadel photographed them.
box 8, folder 12
Family portrait,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 contact print, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 13
Wongs shopping,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
4
items
(2 contact prints, 1 envelope, 1
notecard)
box 8, folder 14
George Wong at school,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
3
items
(2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 15
Richie Wong at playgroup,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
3
items
box 8, folder 16
Richie Wong's third birthday party,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
box 8, folder 17
The Wongs at lunch (at home),
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
3
items
(2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 18
Wongs at supper,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
6
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
items
(2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 20
Mrs. Wong at clinic,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 contact print, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Richie getting a check-up.
box 8, folder 21
Wongs at Zoo,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
13
items
(12 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Griffith Park Zoo.
box 8, folder 22
Trimming the Christmas tree,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 contact print, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 23
George Wong at work,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
8
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
Scope and Content Note
Arthur J. and Pascuala (Patsy) Ramirez were a Mexican American family with five
boys: Arthur, Jr. (8 1/2); David (6); Thomas (4); Jimmy (3); and Steven (1).
box 8, folder 24
Ramirez getting bath,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
15
items
(13 contact prints, 1 envelope, 1 note
card)
box 8, folder 25
Boys playing at home,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
3
items
(2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 26
Pillow fight,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
3
items
(2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 27
Ramirez teaching,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
7
items
(6 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Arthur Ramirez teaching a class.
box 8, folder 28
Ramirez boys at playgroup,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 contact print, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 29
Ramirez fixing the car,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 contact print, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 30
Mr. Ramirez at Catholic Youth Organization (CYO),
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 contact print, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 31
Ramirez at home,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
6
items
(5 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Patsy Ramirez ironing.
box 8, folder 32
Ramirez Christmas tree,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
4
items
(3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Arthur and Patsy Ramirez decorating their Christmas tree; Ramirez family
portrait; Patsy Ramirez playing tennis.
box 8, folder 33
Ramirez studying in library,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 contact print, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 34
Ramirez at supper,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
8
items
(7 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Ramirez family eating; Arthur Ramirez playing with baby; boys reading.
box 8, folder 35
Ramirez on Sunday stroll,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
3
items
(2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 36
Ramirez - referee in game,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 contact print, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Arthur Ramirez as basketball referee.
Wilson family,
circa
1948-1949
Scope and Content Note
Lee Roy and Jessie Mae Wilson were a Black couple with two boys, Carles and Saul,
and a toddler (?).
box 8, folder 37
Charles Wilson in cafeteria,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
3
items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope, 1 note
card)
box 8, folder 38
Wilsons at supper,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
6
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
items
(3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 40
Sewing class (Mrs. Wilson),
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
3
items
(2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 41
Saul Wilson at Tenderfoot ceremony,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
3
items
(2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 42
Social tea,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
3
items
(2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 43
Wilsons relaxing,
circa
1948-1949
Container Summary: (1
contact print, 1 envelope)
Taggart family,
circa
1948-1949
Scope and Content Note
William Taggert and his wife were a white couple with three sons: William, Jr.
(13); Richard James (8); and James William (2).
box 8, folder 44
Taggert portrait,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
6
items
(5 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Family portraits. Also included are images of a 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
items
(1 contact print, 1 envelope, 1
notecard)
Scope and Content Note
Mrs. Taggert and the Bluegirl troop making a cake.
box 8, folder 46
Mr. Taggart and baby,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 contact print, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 47
Taggert family at supper,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
5
items
(4 contact prints, 1
envelope
box 8, folder 48
Taggarts and home counselor,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
6
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
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
items
(2 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 51
Taggert doing washing,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
4
items
(3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
William Taggart doing laundry in kitchen using a wringer washing machine.
box 8, folder 52
Taggert printing press,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 contact print, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
William Taggart working a printing press.
box 8, folder 53
Richard Taggart in class,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
5
items
(4 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 54
Taggart boys washing dishes,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
4
items
(3 contact prints, 1
envelope)
box 8, folder 55
Taggert boy getting haircut,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
2
items
(1 contact print, 1
envelope)
Scope and Content Note
Mrs. Taggart giving son a haircut.
box 9, folder 1
Notes on Aliso Village,
circa
1948-1949
Physical Description:
36
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
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
items
Scope and Content Note
Signed consents from families (full and exclusive permission to copyright, use, and
publish photographs).
box 13, folder 6
Charts of family and inter-resident interactions,
circa
1949
Physical Description:
5
Sheets
Texts for "Aliso Village, U.S.A.,"
1949
box 9, folder 2
Aliso text,
1949
Physical Description:
23
items
(22 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 9, folder 3
Aliso text type,
1949
Physical Description:
44
items
(43 negatives, 1
envelope)
box 13, folder 7
Introduction to book,
circa
1949
Physical Description:
1
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
Photographic Slides
box 10, folder 1
"Aliso Village, U.S.A.,"
circa
1949
Physical Description:
1
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
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
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
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
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
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
items
Scope and Content Note
Notes on meetings 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
item
Scope and Content Note
Notes on meeting with Roy Stryker.
box 13, folder 15
1950 -
1951
Physical Description:
21
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
items
box 13, folder 17
Filmstrip copyright agreement,
undated
Physical Description:
2
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.