Women learning to sew at the Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview
- Title
- Women learning to sew at the Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- August 31, 1935
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Photograph of unidentified women of various ages using sewing machines to learn how to become seamstresses. Instructors stand behind to overlook their students’ work.
This photograph appears with the article, “Scenes Depict Trade Instruction for Unemployed at Wiggins School,” Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 1935: A1. - Caption
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Text from newspaper caption: Hundreds of unemployed housewives have learned power-machine sewing during the ten-week emergency educational program this summer. Shown at work with the machines at the Frank Wiggins Trade School is a group of potential seamstresses.
Text from negative sleeve: 1894—Frank Wiggins Trade School—8/30/35. [Stamped:] SEP 4 1935.
Handwritten on negative: Frank Wiggins Trade School.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
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Women--California--Los Angeles
Seamstresses
Sewing machines
Vocational education--California--Los Angeles - Names
- Frank Wiggins Trade School
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.032734
- Latitude
- -118.269903
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_8199
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dg1km
- Manifest url
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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
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .