Subject: Canned foods - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Margaret Burris holds a knife while Fannie Mead Biddick looks on. There are tin cans of food on the table. There is another person's hand visible at the left opening a can. There is a basket on the table and a box next to it. There are trees in the background.
Date:: September 1900
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Two men pick up food at a cooperative located at 21st and Santee St. in Los Angeles. Many self-sustaining communities like this one emerged in California during the 1930s, specifically in the Los Angeles - Orange County area
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph appears with the headline, "Theta Alumnae Bring Cheer to Needy," Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec 1935: A6.
Date:: December 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A girl stands in front of the Los Angeles Times Home Service Bureau exhibit at the Food and Household Show, sponsored by the Southern California Retail Grocers Association. Signs on the exhibit read, "83 Los Angeles Times Home Service Bureau," "Los Angeles Times Cooking School, Marian Manne... Director." The exhibit contains shelves lined with various groceries, including Quaker Oats, Heinz products, Crisco, and Ivory Soap. Large vases of flowers stand on either side. There are either exhibits visible, and there is a woman sitting at the one on the left.
Date:: [circa November 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Vacationing Pittsburgh lawyer S. H. Patterson claims to have found several discarded cans full of at least twenty pounds of government-issued food along the sidewalk at Third Street and Union Avenue.
Date:: March 22, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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