Subject: Government / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Economy - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Three unidentified people in a slum. Part of the housing study carried out by the State Emergency Relief Administration. County officials were asked to make a study of housing conditions in their city.
Date:: [circa June 17, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Los Angeles Board of Supervisors members (left to right) John Anson Ford, John R. Quinn, Roger Jessup, and McDonough Gordon fraternize with a local food kitchen chef. Most likely to do with the decision of the Board of Supervisors to increase relief for the unemployed.
Date:: [circa December, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A slum area, with unidentified citizens visible. Part of the housing study carried out by the State Emergency Relief Administration. County officials were asked to make a study of housing conditions in their city.
Date:: [circa June 17, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Financier F.W. Leistikow, who, along with his wife Esther E. Leistikow and 17 others, will benefit from a settlement with the County Counsel’s Department after claiming that the county illegally collected taxes on luxury homes in 1939, 1940, and 1941. The claims totaled $32,171.35 and, although the Counsel did not admit wrongdoing, they realized it would be more difficult to protest and decided to pay 62.5% of that amount, equal to $20,117.72
Date:: October 6, 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Laundry hanging in a slum. Part of the housing study carried out by the State Emergency Relief Administration. County officials were asked to make a study of housing conditions in their city.
Date:: 1934-06-17
[circa June 17, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A slum. Part of the housing study carried out by the State Emergency Relief Administration. County officials were asked to make a study of housing conditions in their city.
Date:: [circa June 17, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Start of journey of Southern California Townsend club members to Chicago for national convention. Clubs named after Dr. Francis Townsend to advocate for his old age pension plans, a precursor to Social Security. West was western divisional director of Townsend club; Litchenfels, state area officer; Highley, President of Los Angeles club; Biddlecom, member of national advisory board. Wives of Bliss and Highley also present.
Date:: [October 21, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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