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

Item Overview

Title

State director of National Youth Administration educational camps Mary B. Perry, 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

Notes

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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Girls' Camp List Opened," Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar 1936: 13.
Miss Perry sits with a stack of files in front of her.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 4475 - Perry, Mary B. (NYA leader) 3/23/36 [stamped:] Mar 25 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Riffling through applications, Mary B. Perry, director of National Youth Administration education camps, is shown choosing the first 100 girls to spend a month at Camp Seeley in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Handwritten on negative: Miss Mary B. Perry - 3/23/36

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Perry, Mary B., b. 1877

Location

San Bernardino (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Vocational education--California--San Bernardino
Facilities--California--San Bernardino