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Title: Women on a "waiting strike"
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: On a "waiting strike" to impress the Los Angeles county board of supervisors with their demands, women recently dismissed from a Works Progress Administration sewing project because of a slashing of federal funds, are shown waiting outside the office of Supervisor Leland Ford in the Hall of Records. They waited to present their demands for aid. Photo dated: February 24, 1938.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00050054
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 6271.
CARL0000054138
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18027
Subject: Ford, Leland
Los Angeles County (Calif.).--Board of Supervisors
United States.--Work Projects Administration
Unemployed women workers
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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