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Description:: Young girl stands in a shop holding a globe during the Christmas shopping season
Date:: December 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: View from behind tall eucalyptus tree towards road under construction in the Huntington Palisades area of Pacific Palisades. The curbs and sidewalks are visible as well as two street lights. Nine road construction workers are spreading asphalt with rakes and shovels and one worker operates an asphalt roller. Two cars are parked on the road and Eucalyptus trees populate the landscape
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Workers pouring cement, paving a road and bosses looking on with mountains in the background
Date:: [between 1928 and 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: Workers handling luggage in the harbor outside of the S.S. Mariposa.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A worker for the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant participating in a sit-down strike. A bitter struggle ensued between union labor leaders whether or not to support the strike.
Date:: [circa February 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women laborers construct mattresses as part of a SERA employment program at Kern fairgrounds.
Date:: [circa January 20, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women laborers in protective masks constructing mattresses for a SERA employment program at a factory in Kern fairgrounds.
Date:: [circa January 20, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women employed by State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA) repair a wheelbarrow. In the 1930s, SERA started fifteen work projects in Los Angeles for unemployed men and women. SERA created approximately 1008 jobs for women, including office and sewing jobs.
Date:: [ca. 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 4 women in bathing suits, posing on large logging vehicle, in decaying condition, with chain, wooden structure and solid wheels, with trees in background
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Women and children gather in support of the United Mill, Mine, and Smelter Workers Union. 1000 union workers walked out of the San Jacinto Tunnel project, part of the Colorado River Aqueduct, on August 15, 1937. The women and children assisted the protesting workers in continuing to strike. The workers had requested that Mine, Mill and Smelter be the sole bargaining agent for all tunnel construction workers. Approximately 500 non-union workers continued to operate essential maintenence and machinery for the tunnel project. Circa August 16, 1937.
Date:: August 16, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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