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Men loading sacks of onions onto a truck as part of the WPA garden project, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Men loading sacks of onions onto a truck as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) garden project. The WPA was a New Deal agency which employed millions of people across the country to carry out public works projects. In 1938 the WPA garden project employed 1867 people on 665 acres.
Date:: [1938 and 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Men loading sacks of onions onto a truck as part of the WPA garden project, Los Angeles, 1930s

Men loading sacks of onions onto a truck as part of the WPA garden project, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Men loading sacks of onions onto a truck as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) garden project. The WPA was a New Deal agency which employed millions of people across the country to carry out public works projects. In 1938 the WPA garden project employed 1867 people on 665 acres.
Date:: [1938 and 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Men loading sacks of onions onto a truck as part of the WPA garden project, Los Angeles, 1930s

Roland C. Casad advertises the Los Angeles Times with a carved gourd, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:: The gourd that Mr. Casad is holding has the following carved onto it in English: “Read the Los Angeles Times for news and advertising. Read ‘Unemployment and It’s Solution’ By Roland C. Castro for Ideas!”
Date:: November 8, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Roland C. Casad advertises the Los Angeles Times with a carved gourd, Los Angeles, 1925

State and Federal Relief officials confer in Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: The four men sit on sofas surrounding a large open book.
Date:: December 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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State and Federal Relief officials confer in Los Angeles, 1935

Cars on the road through Griffith Park with laborers in the background widening the road, Los Angeles 1933

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
Date:: April, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Cars on the road through Griffith Park with laborers in the background widening the road, Los Angeles 1933

Unemployment settlement, Los Angeles, 1929-1939

Description:: View of unemployment settlement at 84th & Alameda Sts. during the Los Angeles Depression. Warner Brothers water tower is visible in left background. "For Sale" sign is distantly visible in center.
Date:: [between 1929-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Unemployment settlement, Los Angeles, 1929-1939

Unemployment settlement, Los Angeles, 1929-1939

Description:: View of unemployment settlement at 84th & Alameda Sts. with tents and temporary structures during the Los Angeles Depression. Sign reads "Wantland's Fresh Daily Yard Eggs."
Date:: [between 1929-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Unemployment settlement, Los Angeles, 1929-1939

Officials order destruction of Hooverville, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Description:: No date was provided on the negative sleeve or negative; however, mass destruction of Hoovervilles was ordered in the early 1940s in the Greater Los Angeles area.
Date:: [circa 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Officials order destruction of Hooverville, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Homeless family outside their tent in a Hooverville, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Description:: No date was provided on the negative sleeve or negative; however, mass destruction of Hoovervilles was ordered in the early 1940s in the Greater Los Angeles area.
Date:: [circa 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Homeless family outside their tent in a Hooverville, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Officials order destruction of Hooverville, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Description:: A group of men, at least one of them a police officer, watch as a Los Angeles shantytown is burned. A large plume of smoke rises from the flames.
Date:: [circa 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Officials order destruction of Hooverville, Los Angeles, circa 1940