Day laborers work with shovels and wheelbarrows to widen the road through Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1933

Title: Day laborers work with shovels and wheelbarrows to widen the road through Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1933
Date Created: April 1933
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph appears with the article, "High and Low Wield Picks in R.F.C. Relief Project: Motley Crew Found at Work on Griffith Park Roads, With Many Driving Own Cars to Job," Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 1933: 19
Roughly two-dozen men hired as day laborers work with shovels and wheelbarrows to widen the road through Griffith Park.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: United States Reconstruction Finance Corp. Griffith Park Road Building
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Text from newspaper caption: Class Lines Vanish in R.F.C. Labor Gangs: Bankers or Bootblacks - They Get 40 Cents an Hour Now. Above, smashing rocks on road in Griffith Park"

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Laborers--California--Los Angeles
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Depressions--California--Los Angeles
Economic & Social Conditions--California--Los Angeles
Names: Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.136554
Latitude: -118.2942
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_4081
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cpt3r
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