Women sit for a civil service test at Belmont High School, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Women sit for a civil service test at Belmont High School, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

April, 1936

Date

1936-04

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Rows upon rows of women fixate writing or reading their exams, some still wearing their hats and coats.
Photograph appears with the article, "Women Seek Police Jobs," Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr 1936: A8.
During the exam there was a slight interruption from several juvenile department employees who claimed that they were angry because the tests were designed to create new positions rather than promote those already in service.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 4966 - Exams for Police Women Belmont High 4/10/36 [stamped:] Apr 1936
Handwritten on negative: Exams for Police Women 4/19036
Text from newspaper caption: From this roomful of 252 applicants for civil service positions, several scores of policewomen will be selected for the Los Angeles force. They were photographed at Belmont High School, while answering questions on law, criminal procedure and juvenile delinquency prevention.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.061454

Latitude

-118.262949

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Policewomen--California--Los Angeles
Desks
Civil service--California--Los Angeles
Examinations--California--Los Angeles