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Description:: Men from families requiring state assistance hoe lettuce grown on community land. Beginning in 1933, small tracts of land throughout Los Angeles county were used by the government as locations for community gardens, where men left unemployed by the Great Depression could work and grow food to feed their families. In 1933, 890 acres of land in Los Angeles County were used toward this purpose; the program expanded to 2,500 acres of land in 1934. This land was approximately enough to grow the vegetables consumed by 20,000 county welfare families.
Date:: [circa February, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Young Los Angelino Yvonne Marion Wolff sits piled under produce grown in a local community garden.Beginning in 1933, small tracts of land throughout Los Angeles county were used by the government as locations for community gardens, where men left unemployed by the Great Depression could work and grow food to feed their families. In 1933, 890 acres of land in Los Angeles County were used toward this purpose; the program expanded to 2,500 acres of land in 1934. This land was approximately enough to grow the vegetables consumed by 20,000 county welfare families.
Date:: [circa February, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Men from families requiring state assistance hoe lettuce grown on community land. Beginning in 1933, small tracts of land throughout Los Angeles county were used by the government as locations for community gardens, where men left unemployed by the Great Depression could work and grow food to feed their families. In 1933, 890 acres of land in Los Angeles County were used toward this purpose; the program expanded to 2,500 acres of land in 1934. This land was approximately enough to grow the vegetables consumed by 20,000 county welfare families.The man posed in front, W.C. Spurling (or possibly Spiering), is a local man deeply involved in the organization of the community garden programs.
Date:: [circa February, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Men from families requiring state assistance hoe lettuce grown on community land. Beginning in 1933, small tracts of land throughout Los Angeles county were used by the government as locations for community gardens, where men left unemployed by the Great Depression could work and grow food to feed their families. In 1933, 890 acres of land in Los Angeles County were used toward this purpose; the program expanded to 2,500 acres of land in 1934. This land was approximately enough to grow the vegetables consumed by 20,000 county welfare families.
Date:: [circa February, 1934?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Local girl Yvonne Marion Wolff poses with Linton H. Smith, organizer of the community gardens project for the Los Angeles County Department of Charities.Beginning in 1933, small tracts of land throughout Los Angeles county were used by the government as locations for community gardens, where men left unemployed by the Great Depression could work and grow food to feed their families. In 1933, 890 acres of land in Los Angeles County were used toward this purpose; the program expanded to 2,500 acres of land in 1934. This land was approximately enough to grow the vegetables consumed by 20,000 county welfare families.
Date:: [circa February 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women on government assistance harvest turnips at a community garden. Beginning in 1933, small tracts of land throughout Los Angeles county were used by the government as locations for community gardens, where men left unemployed by the Great Depression could work and grow food to feed their families. In 1933, 890 acres of land in Los Angeles County were used toward this purpose; the program expanded to 2,500 acres of land in 1934. This land was approximately enough to grow the vegetables consumed by 20,000 county welfare families.
Date:: [circa February, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Appears with the article, "How to Feed Ducks," Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 1935: I24
Date:: [circa November, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph of the same boy tending to ducks is captioned, "If You're Going to Make a Success with Ducks You'll Have to Watch Their Menu!," Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 1935: I24
Date:: [circa November, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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