Finding aid for the Collection of Southern California housing reports and photographs
0436
Finding aid prepared by Jane Adler, Clay Stalls
USC Libraries Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California, 90089-0189
213-740-5900
specol@usc.edu
2000 January 27
Title: Collection of Southern California housing reports and photographs
Collection number: 0436
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.21 linear ft.
1 box
Date (inclusive): 1937-1972
Abstract: The Collection of Southern California housing reports and photographs consists of reports, photographs, studies, housing authority
materials, and a speech, 1937-1972, related to the problem of affordable housing in Los Angeles. The reports were authored
by the Los Angeles City Housing Authority, the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, and the Claremont Colleges. The photographs
provide visual evidence of slum housing in Los Angeles in the 1940s.
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
The use of archival materials for on-site research does not constitute permission from the California Social Welfare Archives
to publish them. Copyright may not have been assigned to the California Social Welfare Archives, and the researcher is instructed
to obtain permission to quote from or publish manuscripts in the CSWA's collections from the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder# or item name], Collection of Southern California housing reports and photographs, Collection no. 0436, California
Social Welfare Archives, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Scope and Content
The Collection of Southern California housing reports and photographs consists of reports, photographs, studies, housing authority
materials, and a speech, 1937-1972, related to the problem of affordable housing in Los Angeles. Their authors include the
Los Angeles City Housing Authority, the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, and the Claremont Colleges. Of particular interest
are the WPA reports undertaken by such Los Angeles City agencies as the Housing Authority regarding the state of housing for
the poor in Los Angeles at the end of the Depression Era.
Also of value are the photographs, for they provide visual evidence of slum housing in Los Angeles in the 1940s, although
their photographers are not identified. Those in folder 8 all bear the date "1941," as well as captions describing their subject,
on the scrapbook page on which they are mounted. The photographs in folder 7 most probably date from this time as well and
are labeled on their back.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Claremont Colleges. Program in Public Policy Studies. -- Archives
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, California. -- Archives
Los Angeles (Calif.). Dept. of City Planning. -- Archives
Los Angeles County Coordinating Councils. Executive Board. -- Archives
Aliso Village (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Photographs
Estrada Courts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Photographs
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century--Archival resources
Photographs
Public housing--California, Southern--20th century--Archival resources
Pueblo del Rio (Long Beach, Calif.)--Photographs
Ramona Gardens (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Photographs
Reports
Rose Hill Courts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Photographs
Slums--California, Southern--20th century--Archival resources
Box 1, Folder 1
Housing Survey Covering Portions of the City of Los Angeles California. Constructed under the Supervision of the Housing Authority
of the City of Los Angeles, California and Published by Them as a Report of Work Projects Administration Project No. 65-1-07-70
. Vol. 1. April 1940. With statement dated 6 June 1939 from Housing Authority on goals of survey
1939-1940
Box 1, Folder 2
Juvenile Delinquency and Poor Housing in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. Prepared under the Direction of the Executive Board, Los Angeles County Coordinating Councils. WPA Delinquency Prevention
Project 9304 Information Division
1937 December
Box 1, Folder 3
1) Los Angeles City Housing Authority undated question and answer sheet re "The Public Slum Clearance and Low-Rent Housing
Program in Los Angeles." 2) Los Angeles City Housing Authority program and statement re Hacienda Village and groundbreaking
ceremony for Village in 1941
1941, undated
Box 1, Folder 4
Bob Beckman et al.
Low-Income Housing: A Policy Study of Pomona, California. Program in Public Policy Studies of the Claremont Colleges
1972 June
Box 1, Folder 5
1) "The San Fernando Valley and Low-Income Housing. A Community Self Study." (n.d.). 2) "Comparison of Blighted and Good Areas
in Los Angeles. Study by the Planning Commission of the City of Los Angeles. 1945." 2 appendices
1945, undated
Box 1, Folder 6
"Statement on Discrimination." Speech by Robert K. Johnson, Vice-Chairman of the Fair Housing Congress of Southern California,
before the Fair Employment Practices Commission, Los Angeles
1971 February 17
Box 1, Folder 7
Photographs of Aliso Village, Rose Hill Courts, and Estrada Courts
circa 1940
Box 1, Folder 8
Photographs of housing at various Los Angeles area locations: Pueblo del Río, Ramona Gardens, Rose Hill Courts
1941, undated