Leonard Nadel photographs and other material relating to housing and urban redevelopment in Los Angeles 1947-1998 (bulk 1947-1957)

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Leonard Nadel photographs and other material relating to housing and urban redevelopment in Los Angeles 1947-1998 (bulk 1947-1957)

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The collection consists of negatives, contact prints, notes, two unpublished books, and related documents produced by the photojournalist Leonard Nadel primarily between 1947-1957, which includes the period when he worked as a documentary photographer for the Los Angeles Housing Authority (HACLA). This material records the city of Los Angeles's mid-century efforts to promote public housing for its growing multi-ethnic population. It also includes Nadel's documentation of the existing slum housing in areas that the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) had targeted for commericial revitalization in the late 1940s through the mid-1950s.

8.75 linear feet; (14 boxes)

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Nadel, Leonard 1916-1990.

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The American photojournalist Leonard Nadel (1916-1990) recieved a bachelor's degree from City College of New York, trained at the Army Signal Corps Photographic Center, and received a master's degree in education from Teachers College, Columbia University before moving to Los Angeles to study photography at the Art Center College of Design, during wihich time he began to document public housing in Los Angeles, focusing on Pueblo del Rio and Aliso Village. On the strength of this work Nadel was h...

Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970

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Richard Josef Neutra was born in 1892 in Vienna; immigrated to US, 1923; Frank Lloyd Wright invited him to Taliesin during the fall of 1924; Neutra moved to Los Angeles, CA, 1925; most productive years were during 1930s and 1940s; spent most of his last decade in partnership with his son, Dion; published several books, including Wie baut Amerika? (1927) and Survival through design (1954); died in 1970. From the description of Papers, 1925-1970. (University of California, Los Angeles)...

Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, California

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Wilkinson, Frank, 1914-2006

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Wright, Lloyd, 1890-1978

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Lloyd Wright: b. 1890, Oak Park. Ill.; d. Santa Monica, Calif. 1978; architect and landscape architect. Son of Frank Lloyd Wright. From the description of Wayfarers' Chapel Fonds, 1937-1979. (Centre canadien d'architecture). WorldCat record id: 486957935 Lloyd Wright, eldest son of Frank Lloyd Wright, was born in 1890; trained as a draftsman/delineator in his father's Oak Park Studio; studied engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1908-9; joined Olmsted and Olmsted in Boston, MA; ...