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Order Number	00068539
Title	Little Tokyo housing cleanup
Photographer	Rothschild, Otto.
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 5892.
Date	1944
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Description	Photograph caption May 25, 1944 reads, “Spurring a campaign to cleanup ‘Little Tokio’ [sic], where more than 79,800 persons are now quartered in overcrowded conditions once occupied by Japanese, Mayor Fletcher Bowron is shown when he made a visit to the district which is within sight of the City Hall tower. The mayor; Dr. George M. Uhl, city health officer, and Nicola Giulli, chairman of the City Housing Authority, are talking to one of the many families living in district.” The group is pictured in front of a Shinto Shine, left abandoned when Japanese residents were forcibly removed from their homes and sent to camps for the duration of World War II.
Subject	Bowron, Fletcher,--1887-1968. Giulli, Nicola. Uhl, George M. Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.). Shinto shrines--California--Los Angeles. Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. Families--California--Los Angeles. Mayors--California--Los Angeles. Children. African Americans. Dogs. Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, California--Employees. Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.). Bronzeville (Los Angeles, Calif.). Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Coverage	1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection