Photographs, taken 1940-1942 by M. L. Cohen Co. General Photographers of the construction of two early Oakland Housing Authority projects, Campbell Village and Peralta Villa. Photographs document all stages of construction, including the demolition of the existing housing stock of mainly single family homes. Numbered photos are arranged by location taken within each housing development (Peralta Villa is noted as location Cal. 3-1 and Campbell Village is location Cal. 3-2), then chronologically. Also includes unnumbered photos and some drawings and plans for each development. Preliminary drawings of the proposed projects, before land was acquired or they were named, are included in box 1 as folder 0. These drawings were published in the Oakland Tribune on April 9, 1939
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