Women working for the WPA Sewing Project on strike, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title
Women working for the WPA Sewing Project on strike, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created
[circa October 5, 1936]
Publisher
Los Angeles Daily News
Language
No linguistic content
Collection
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
Description
Women working for the Works Progress Administration Sewing Project having a sit-down strike. A sit-down strike occurs during the work day and sometimes is located at the job site.
Caption
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: WPA Sewing Project Women on strike
Text from original nitrate sleeve: WPA Women in Sit-Down Strike

Physical Description

Extent
1 photograph
Medium
b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects
Strikes--California--Los Angeles
Activism
Names
United States. Work Projects Administration (Calif.)
Location
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type
still image

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Repository
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier
13960
uclamss_1387_13960-01
ARK
ark:/21198/zz00288cwr
Manifest url
IIIF Manifest

Access Condition

Rights statement
copyrighted
Rights Holder
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Rights Country
US
Funding Note
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
License
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .