State director of National Youth Administration educational camps Mary B. Perry chooses from female applicants, San Bernardino, 1936

Title: State director of National Youth Administration educational camps Mary B. Perry chooses from female applicants, San Bernardino, 1936
Date Created: March 24, 1936
Date: 1936-03-24
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Miss Perry is responsible for choosing 100 Southern California girls whose families work for or are on the dole for the Works Progress Administration to participate in the first National Youth Administration camp that will teach business courses, home management, cooking, handcraft, music, dramatics and sewing to girls 16 to 25 years of age from April 6 to June 6.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Girls' Camp List Opened," Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar 1936: 13.
From a different angle Miss Perry sits with a stack of files in front of her.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Miss Mary B. Perry - 3/23/36
Text from negative sleeve: 4475 - Perry, Mary B. (NYA leader) 3/23/36 [stamped:] Mar 25 1936

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Perry, Mary B., b. 1877
Location: San Bernardino (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Facilities--California--San Bernardino
Vocational education--California--San Bernardino

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13672
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnx5f
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